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...average U.S. citizen, air and sea power are the weapons to be used to defeat Japan. Last week an infantryman gave a different opinion. Burly Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., head of the Army's new Alaskan Department, told reporters that he was for land occupation of the Pacific enemy's homeland...
...published a popular history of the British Army (original title: The King's Service). Now called The British Infantryman, the book is a strong seller among the paper-covered Penguins...
...Infantryman. Mark Clark loves the infantry. To him it is literally the "Queen of Battles." The affection began all of the General's 47 years ago. For he was born in an infantry camp, so to speak: at Madison Barracks, in upstate New York, a post near which onetime hard-drinker Ulysses S. Grant is said to have organized the Sons of Temperance. His father, the late Colonel C. C. Clark, was an infantryman, a career soldier and West Pointer, who exerted a large influence over...
...classes of 200 (25% is average mortality among O.C.s), students start off with six weeks' intensive study of the infantryman's 13 weapons, from Garand to bazooka. They learn what each can and cannot do; sometimes they aim a weapon two hours before firing. They also learn to live harder and in more orderly fashion than they knew even in the Army's tough school of the enlisted soldier...
...Holder. Patton replaced scrappy, 59-year-old Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, an infantryman and tactician who may have been the unluckiest general in the North African campaign. FredendalE had to hold the whole central Tunisian front with an inadequate army of poorly equipped French and unseasoned U.S. troops. He said at the time, "I am holding...