Word: infantrymen
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...horses passed-two dozen German cavalry mounts ridden now by U.S. infantrymen. The man with the mouth organ stopped playing as he passed. He winked and grinned. 'Hiya, Yink,' he said "Texas was never like this...
...still on the advance, they had smashed into Avranches (see map) cutting the German's best road across lower Normandy. They had already ripped through to the sea at Brehal and at Granville in a series of well-executed sweeps that enveloped pockets of stunned German tankmen and infantrymen. They had collected more than 10,000 prisoners; more thousands were streaming in from some of the German's best divisions. There was a good chance the reeling Germans could not stop short of the hills below Avranches (their retreat was so speedy in the last 20 miles...
Tall, boyish Photographer Bede Irvin of Des Moines went overseas for the Associated Press with hell-for-leather enthusiasm. When D-day came, he was delighted. Last week he watched U.S. infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World...
Part of the German tank forces had been beautifully feinted out of position by a preliminary thrust at Evrecy, southwest of Caen. Then the real blow was hurled east of Caen, as Allied tanks, vehicles, infantrymen moved forward. The battlefield was spectacular, wreathed in clouds of golden yellow dust, through which the sullen sun shone like a dull copper disc...
...midnight news conference a briefing officer opened the session wryly : "Well, gentlemen, I hope the Russians have done something today." General Montgomery's offensive east of Caen, which had jumped off to such a promising start early in the week, had clanked to a grinding stop. Infantrymen, mopping up the ground taken, had es tablished a sound and useful bridgehead across the Orne River barrier, and the Allies were unquestionably in better position for the next push, but that was about...