Word: infantrymen
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...Ukraine in spring: sparkling puddles, shell craters, blistered, blackened tanks, the sullen stench of battle and unburied soldiers. Along the muddy roads, Red Army tractors tugged at stalled trucks and mired cannon. Red artillerymen whipped their foamy horses. Red cavalrymen trotted briskly through the muck, bespattering weary, sweating infantrymen on the way to another battle...
During the first week of the new attack General Stilwell's troops did well. Total Japanese killed in the Walawbum-Maingkwan area were estimated at 2,000-800 by General Merrill's marauding infantrymen, 700 by the Chinese 22nd and 38th divisions, 500 by Chinese-manned tanks under Colonel Rothwell H. Brown. Total Japanese dead in the Hukawng Valley by week...
...Fifth Army fronts in Italy hung in stalemate last week, military observers suggested that a special medal should be struck off. The candidates for the medal: the few U.S. infantrymen who got across the Rapido River, cracked their way into Cassino, then clung to a few shattered buildings for 17 days & nights...
Then the Marines joined Colonel Ayer's Army infantrymen, swept up & down the atoll. The U.S. had an atoll from which land-based planes might continue the assault on Truk, only 760 miles away. It also had a new "farthest west" position in the enemy's Central Pacific empire...
...front near Cassino the Allies forced their way foot by foot across the icy stream. Combat engineers rushed in to build bridges and clear mines out of roads while German shells slammed blindly through their protecting smoke screen. Planes and barrages smote the Monte Cassino Abbey positions, but when infantrymen tried to press forward the Germans were still dug in on the mountain and pouring back murderous patterns of machine-gun fire. As at Anzio, the best the Allies could claim was stalemate...