Word: infantryman
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...Connally's meat, though he has never quite got his teeth in it. He volunteered as an infantryman in 1898, became a sergeant major, was on his way to Puerto Rico when the war ended. His first act when he went to Congress in 1917 was to vote for a declaration of war against Germany. Then he left the House (without resigning) to join the Army. He was a captain at Camp Meade, with overseas orders, when World War I ended. Too old to tote a gun now (he will be 64 this month), Tom Connally...
Fortnight before, Hitler's "shadow"-the young World War I infantryman and Air Force pilot who had got caught in the 1923 Munich beer-hall Putsch and had gone to jail with Hitler and had helped him write Mein Kampf in prison-had traveled to Augsburg and decorated Willy Messerschmitt at the Messerschmitt aircraft factory for services to the Fatherland. Three days later Hess had sat on the dais of Berlin's Kroll Opera House, arms folded and beetle-brows lowered, while his frenzied colleague of 21 hard years of struggle had crowed over the victory...
...burst, Russia must be reckoned with, and Russia has promised Turkey not to join in any attack on her. Against Germany alone Turkey could put up a respectable, though probably not a winning, fight. Chief of Staff Marshal Fevzi Cak-mak (pronounced Chockmock) says that Turkey is an infantryman's paradise, with hills, valleys and passes that crack riflemen and machine-gunners could hold. Infantry is the Army's pride, as it has been since the days of the Janizaries. The infantry is rendered stronger by the fact that the great Kamâl Atatürk modernized...
...roadside, walked back to the cars with the shoulder-hitching, spraddle-legged walk that is proper affectation for cavalrymen even when they are motorized. The General's O.D. sedan whirled around the bend and pulled up alongside the store porch. General Fredendall, a short, lean-flanked infantryman, stopped to chat with newsmen. "A good looking outfit," remarked one of the newsmen. The General's reddened cheeks wrinkled in a grin. "Good enough," said...
When the British brought their fierce, bearded Sikh troops into the African campaign they found themselves up against a tough problem. Army regulations demand that every British infantryman be issued a steel helmet. But the Sikhs insist on wearing turbans, over which no steel helmet can fit. Finally, the Sikhs worked out an agreement with their British officers, accepted the helmets. Last week as they edged ahead through central Eritrea each Sikh wore a turban on his head, obediently dangled a British helmet from his haversack...