Word: infantrymen
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...supplies and the military advice of General James A. Van Fleet's men were essential elements in the victory. The main credit, however, belonged to the hard-bitten Greek infantrymen, like those who wept last week on Grammos...
...Bellevue-Stratford ballroom. There on the stage a gigantic photograph of the candidate, tinted somewhat too vividly, gazed steadily out over the throngs. Around the balcony hung other photographs: the Dewey family playing with their Great Dane; the Dewey family at the circus; Dewey on the farm. Dewey infantrymen passed out soft drinks and small favors to gawking visitors and gave every 200th visitor a door prize. William Horne, a Philadelphia bank employee, was clocked in as the 45,000th visitor and got a sterling silver carving...
...enough caribou to uniform an army. White men have tried piling on layers of clothing, which keep out cold but keep in sweat-and if the sweat freezes, so does the man. Churchill's commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel A. James Tedlie, showed Claxton the New Look for Arctic infantrymen...
...half a dozen governments. The purported plots crossed ideological lines; they were against rightist regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, against leftist governments in Cuba, Guatemala, Venezuela. At hand in the U.S. were stacks of surplus guns, and plenty of adventurers, unemployed fighter pilots, aerial gunners and combat infantrymen who would fight at the drop of a dollar...
...Academy after a tour in the Philippines to coach the cadets in French and Spanish. On the Western Front in 1918 Major Stilwell saw plenty of action as a G-2 staff officer. He scoffed at the Distinguished Service Medal he received, said that medals were for the combat infantrymen...