Word: infantrymen
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...only other vessel of the group able to navigate by itself on the high seas, is 155 ft. long and can carry about 200 infantrymen in an attack. Its crew and command are similar to those of the LST; officers and men on both develop great esprit de corps, become inordinately fond of their strange craft, and look with pained incredulity on finical civilians who consider the ships something less than yare and yachtlike...
Lieut. Colonel Edwin Stephenson and three enlisted men saw a German tank running down a road and knocking down U.S. infantrymen like bowling pins. Another tank headed for Colonel Stephenson, Corporals Perry Baker and Alvin Copeland and Private Eli Franklin. The Colonel said: "Boys, let's stay...
...battleships (Warspite, Valiant), shelled the Nazi positions. Allied air forces threw many hundreds of planes at the same positions, flew 2,000 sorties in one day. At the extreme crisis, artillerymen under Lieut. Colonel Hal Muldrow, one of the many Oklahomans, were the only forces facing German tanks and infantrymen. Muldrow stripped his gun crews, gave them rifles and machine guns. The German spearhead was stopped, enveloped, thrown back. Near the northern end of the bridgehead the British stopped a German advance, seized the town and airfield of Montecorvino Pugliano. On the eleventh day a reporter flying over the lines...
...peaceful hamlets of Moravia, the Czechs met 60 German tanks in an angry melee. When the battle ended a day later Svoboda still held the crossing, and the site where the village once stood was littered with the shells of 19 enemy tanks and the corpses of 400 infantrymen...
...press, "Ike" Eisenhower, a ready, salty speaker, groped hard for the right tribute to his men. There was so much to praise: the courage of the airborne troops; the skill of the pilots and sailors; the resourcefulness of the engineers who rebuilt roads and bridges; the endurance of the infantrymen who hiked the skin off their soles. For a good five minutes the General groped. When he found the words they were unquotable. But for quotation he said: "They did everything the finest armies in the world could have done...