Word: infantryman
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Westward. Omar Bradley, the infantryman's general, was using the greatest U.S. striking force in World War II. In the Normandy stalemate after the brilliant capture of Cherbourg, he had used it tentatively, so G.I.s seemed to think, among the baffling hedgerows of the bocage country. But when the breakthrough came there was nothing tentative about it: Bradley kept plowing ahead without giving the Germans a chance to recover their balance...
...afraid to make a decision, Eisenhower has become even more confident, more incisive as his job grew. Few men can talk with his fluent clearness. His handling of press conferences makes good reporters beam with admiration. Before a complex operation he can take an airman, an infantryman and a naval officer, and rapidly explain to all three the peculiar requirements of their separate specialties far better than those specialists could hope to explain them to one another...
...habits, miseries, elations, fatigues. There were exhausted Italian ref ugees, U.S. wounded, panoramic views of battlefields, pen & ink portraits of Generals Eisenhower and Clark, Correspondent Ernie Pyle. There were also nine sketches of dead bodies. One of the most effective, War Drawing No. u, showed a death-sprawled German infantryman, his mouth covered with a muffler, his unflung hand grenade lying near his outflung hand...
...TIME, unlike most civilian publications, knows that there's a war on, and tells about it. Your story "Credit for the Doughboy" [TIME, April 10] stirred the ex-infantryman in me. . . . When the war is finally won, there will be no doubt in the civilian mind that the dirtiest, toughest, most grueling part of the job was done by the infantry and artillery and other earthbound forces. TIME, in its straightforward accounts of the fight, has taught this to many, including the pilot and naval officer of your article...
Significant of the infantryman's increased importance is the news that more of him are needed. The War Department has announced that 36,000 men who had volunteered for the Air Forces were being turned back to the Ground and Service Forces. (Lighter-than-expected air casualties are also responsible for suspension of aviation cadet procurement.) Some 9,000 2nd lieutenants from coast artillery outfits were at Fort Benning, being turned into infantry officers...