Word: infantrymen
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...serious collector has whole regiments of infantrymen, squadrons of cavalry. Each must be perfect to the last detail: a handsome, 3-in. drummer in Louis XIV's army is done up in the flaming red, orange and white uniform of the period, with every button, every bit of lace exactly in place. France's handful of craftsmen (among them: an old widow, an ex-jockey, a chef) will spend an entire week fashioning the body for such a figure, then modeling the uniform out of tin leaf. It takes 40 delicate soldering operations to make King Louis...
Eight Iron Men (Stanley Kramer; Columbia) is a war film without Hollywood heroics. It tells the story of a squad of eight battle-weary infantrymen holed up for 17 days in a dreary Italian "shooting gallery" near Cassino, where they engage mostly in griping, bickering and bantering about the war. But when one of the G.I.s is pinned down in a shellhole by enemy fire during a reconnaissance patrol, boredom gives way to an almost mystical feeling of brotherhood. Disobeying orders, the squad goes about rescuing the trapped man (it turns out, ironically, that he had only sprained his ankle...
...they had made a lightning strike into the heart of enemy country, but just as they had been about to descend on the Communist stronghold of Yenbay, the whole operation had been called off. Operation Lorraine it had been named-parachute troops leapfrogging an armored spearhead of 15,000 infantrymen, as pretty a piece of planning as you would find in the book. What had happened...
Finally, with Eighth Army consent, the ROKs gave up trying to win Triangle. The little infantrymen crouched in their bunkers, like dazed men coming out of a bad dream, and the battle was handed over to artillery. Back of the two battered hills, the Communists were believed to have an artillery division in addition to the regular unit artillery-some 200 guns in all. At week's end, the U.N. reported silencing half the enemy guns. The Red artillery fire had slacked off sharply-but that may have been partly due to lack of targets and dwindling ammunition...
Mauldin's pen & ink infantrymen from Stars & Stripes were a biting commentary on the long-suffering dogfaces of World War II. By surrounding Willie and Joe with a threadbare plot and substituting slapstick for the original's realism, Back at the Front succeeds in making Willie and Joe look more like two-dimensional comic-strip characters than they ever have before...