Word: infantrymen
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...Pass through dust and mud. It was in the roads punched out of mountain sides while the battles went on, in the bridges built, the airstrips rolled, the lumber cut, the dirt hauled by the engineers. He would also find it in the muddy, lined, unshaven faces of the infantrymen, seasoned fighters who beat mountains, jungles and rain as well as Japanese. What the Americans had better than Bushido was fighting heart and unmatched ability to fight an engineers...
Willie and Joe were combat infantrymen...
...army's vast organization, combat infantrymen are the hundreds of thousands (among the many millions) who are always in the front lines and who carry the dirtiest, heaviest burden of any war. They are the heroes whom the Army this week honors on Infantry Day (June 15)-the anniversary of the day that George Washington was named commander in chief of the Continental Army. Through Willie and Joe, Soldier-Artist Bill Mauldin has honored them...
...Front, which is like a long letter home, sets forth some of Bill Mauldin's favorite gripes, which are the gripes of all infantrymen. Among them: revulsion at "spit & polish" in the field; envy of rear-echelon men who take over the towns after the infantrymen have captured them, occupy all the best spots and drink all the liquor; disdain for brass hats full of arrogance and stuffing...
Paced by tanks, 38th Division infantrymen were storming a narrow gorge, its 500-ft. walls honeycombed with Japanese caves, leading to Wawa Dam east of Manila. The tanks stalled in the bouldered terrain. So they called up lanky Charles R. Oliver Jr., who a year ago was a Wortham, Tex. high-school student, gave him a bazooka and appointed him spearhead...