Word: infantrymen
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...reported to have sent Russian cavalry against German tanks. He heard that in defense of one 300-yard stretch of railroad track 1,600 citizens, including women and boys as young as twelve, dashed suicidally into Nazi gunfire. He heard about the death march of 15 rows of infantrymen in closed ranks. He approved the use of green reserves, even of workers' battalions and civilian brigades in front-line actions...
...main blow," the Germans had drawn forces from both southern and northern fronts. They had thrown into this great push toward Moscow more than two-thirds of their entire infantry forces in Russia, three-quarters of their Panzer forces. Altogether the Germans were using some 1,700,000 infantrymen, 450,000 motorized troops, 14,000 tanks...
Typical was a group of 166 weather-beaten infantrymen turned out from Fort Benning, Ga.: some drafted men, some regulars, a few National Guardsmen. Many of them were college graduates, most had college training. All had shown qualities of leadership. Leadership was the quality the Army sought most in its new officers. All had had at least six months' training as enlisted soldiers...
...gasoline for the tanks) as far back as Shreveport. Support aviation, including dive-bombers from the Navy (under Army command), blasted at tanks, then blew up the bridges across the Red River. Meanwhile the Red tanks had been stopped, and the gaps they had made plugged up by sweating infantrymen...
...where soldiers had to push their car. One day they flew down to the Ukraine to see Italian troops attacking Russia under the command of German Field Marshal von Rundstedt. For a while they shared the soldiers' soup and black bread, allowed themselves to be photographed by respectful infantrymen. Flying back from the Ukraine, Mussolini was allowed to take the controls for a few minutes from Adolf's personal pilot...