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...were the Japanese more successful in the land fighting. While rain turned the ground into watery, reddish mud, and stalled virtually all transportation but weasels (tracked jeeps), U.S. troops wormed gradually around the Japanese defense line in the south. In the east infantrymen captured the seaport village of Yonabaru and swept on in a flanking drive. The Japs withdrew hastily, for the first time abandoning large supply dumps intact. On the west marines secured Sugar Loaf and Half Moon Hills, at week's end held half of Naha...
...local conscription. Now the Generalissimo works out basic strategy with Wedemeyer, transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure's network supervises the execution. But in action, Chinese officers are solely responsible. The result is that U.S. officers train and fight alongside Chinese infantrymen and artillerists. The Americans have set up veterinary, signal corps, transport and general staff schools to teach U.S. techniques. These institutions were conceived by General Stilwell and were in existence when Wedemeyer arrived. But Wedemeyer welded them into a cohesive whole. Seldom had the traditional friendship of two great peoples...
...45th slogged north through the Apennines for four months, with virtually no rest. Its infantrymen were the men Sergeant Bill Mauldin, himself a 45th Division soldier, drew in his cartoons-unshaven, unkempt, unbeatable. They were pulled out of the line only after they had cleared the approaches to Cassino, given a few days rest. Then they were sent into the smoky, battered beachhead at Anzio. A headquarters commandant grimly noted: "In the last months I have seen six battalion commanders come...
...Armored Divisions. All armored division men wear the same gaudy, triangular patch; only the division number varies. The yellow in the patch stands for the cavalrymen, the scarlet for the artillerymen, the blue for the infantrymen; men of these three branches were originally thrown together to make up the first U.S. Armored Force, in July...
...soft of dry-land equivalent of Noel Coward's famed In Which We Serve, tells with considerable force one of the real stories of modern war. The story: how a shuffling motley of unwilling conscripts, drawn from every walk of life, are transformed into proficient and brave infantrymen...