Word: infantrymen
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...Better Button Up." The sound of rifle and machine-gun fire was loud and close by. Casualties were lying in the dust with medics bending over them. The medics had red crosses painted on the sides of their yellow-and-green camouflaged helmets; otherwise they looked the same as infantrymen...
...Blessed Infantry. On our right was a group of infantrymen maneuvering around an area of thrashed foliage. We passed so close we could look into their eyes as though it were in a movie closeup. Not seeing the periscopes, they were unaware of our scrutiny. They seemed even unaware of the tank. Their eyes were sharp, wary, tired, but not alarmed...
...Infantrymen were running and crouching, circling around a large mound. Three or four mounted the grassy parapet and jumped down on the other side. There was a burst of fire, and another, as grenades went off. In the foreground a soldier wearing glasses and holding an unlit cigaret between his lips sprang from the concealing greenery and ran at half speed for about ten yards to a palm tree. He landed behind this tree with his feet forward in a sitting position and his head turned mechanically to look back over the field. After two or three seconds...
...High Ground. This week the beachhead thundered in one of the toughest battles U.S. troops and their British allies have yet fought. They were still on the ground they had taken in the first few days, a low plain criss-crossed with creeks and drainage ditches where front-line infantrymen had to take cover in waist-deep water from German fire...
...down the road. Our three tanks were snuggled close to a building just 100 yards away. Across the road, doughboys were crawling over the grassy meadow toward another group of houses, with bullets kicking up dust about them. Germans in the red houses were raining fire on those unprotected infantrymen. Here and there forms lay on their backs, not moving...