Word: platooner
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...Sympathy. The anguished father went to call on the M.P. for Leeds, who happens to be Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. Gaitskell poured him tea and got busy at the War Office. Lieut. Moorhouse, Gaitskell learned, had led his platoon through the back streets of Port Said on a night raid in which nine Egyptian terrorists were rounded up. He had gone back alone to the scene of the arrest next morning in an open Land Rover. The car had been found deserted on a side street. Lieut. Moorhouse was not seen again. That night Commanding General Sir Hugh Stockwell sent...
...first, faint light of dawn silhouetted rugged peaks, then picked out the barracks, the ammunition depot and the sandbagged trench surrounding a hilltop army outpost called Praga in the Colombian Andes. Praga's commander, a lieutenant, was not there; he and most of his platoon had been called away to chase cattle thieves, leaving a corporal in charge. A yawning sentry leaned on a bayoneted rifle; 17 soldiers slept...
...private were left alive. The corporal drenched the post's ammunition supply with gasoline, limped away into the safety of darkness with the private, then tossed back a hand grenade. The tremendous blast and towering flames were noted miles away by the lieutenant and the rest of the platoon. They returned after ten hours of hard marching, in time to bury the dead and hear the survivors story...
...Long rated by his platoon as a "prize eight ball," Machine Gunner John Wol-zeak spotted a Chinese sneak attack, made "the astonishing discovery that he was a born infantry fighter," and, together with a buddy, exultantly checked the enemy. t| On Dale outpost, a badly wounded lieutenant led an uphill counterattack and nightlong defense, next morning could still jolly his men with a grin and a quip: "I already have one Purple Heart. Now they'll have to give me a dozen." t| Two infantrymen, both named Smith, were cut off from their outfit, spent the night with...
...talked himself out of the infantry ("Because I don't like walking") and into the artillery. He was almost court-martialed for calling his uniform a Klufterl (a childish masquerade). But he served in Poland, France, Russia, and at the Battle of Stalingrad he led his platoon out of encirclement, fighting a rearguard action for 50 miles...