Word: infantrymen
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...huge close-ups of the helmeted heads of infantrymen as they move into battle, or rest after it while you are told that many of those you watch are soon to die. have the simple immediacy of good family snapshots-and the enduring majesty of a heroic frieze...
...infantrymen went after them with some new ideas. On Luzon they had discovered that the 90-mm. antiaircraft gun, with its high muzzle velocity and flat trajectory, makes an excellent cave-closing weapon. When the gun is brought into position, its accurate sights permit gunners to draw a sniper's bead on cave mouths thousands of yards away. In twelve days two guns closed over 100 caves on Balete Pass; one cave later yielded 23 Japs, dead of suffocation...
Down the island's coasts, to start the action, came Japanese infantrymen in landing craft. Some marines came out of the forward areas, and 96th Division units moved up from their rest area to meet the threat...
With the dawn came still heavier fighting. On the east end of the battle line Jap infantrymen came out of their foxholes to attack the 7th and 77th Division fronts. For the first time on Okinawa they brought tanks into action. The Japs poured through 1,500 yards at one place before they were wiped out. Through the morning furious fighting raged until the assault subsided and the Americans struck back over the bodies of 3,000 Japs...
...Kakazu Ridge, a miserable little 300-ft. fold in the earth just north of Naha, U.S. Tenth Army infantrymen found out for sure what they had suspected all along: Okinawa would come high...