Word: rifleman
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...rifleman shivering in his parka complained: "If only the weather would warm up we would tear those guys apart...
...foot in front of the other, at a pace that could not have exceeded a few hundred yards an hour. Some of them wept with pain as they walked, others lay sprawled grotesquely on the frozen stubble by the roadside, in the deathlike sleep of utter exhaustion. One R.O.K. rifleman was crawling on his hands and knees, his Garand still slung across his back, when some G.I.s with an I. and R. (Intelligence and Reconnaissance) platoon found him and packed him off in a jeep...
...veteran rifleman in the Marine Corps who saw two years service, two bloody campaigns (Peleliu and Okinawa), and received two wounds (one in each campaign), who will not be 25 years old until next month, and who knows that a lot of my buddies were my age or younger ... I hope you will print this letter so that Hershey's remark may at least be placed in perspective. It was precisely the youngsters who were doing the bloody work-so they only saw two years service (a short time...
...crosses and all medics? are now armed. Said one ambulance driver: "I drove wounded in the fighting from the English Channel to Germany, but this is the first war I had to shoot my way through to get them." Ambulances in Korea today have the driver flanked by a rifleman on each fender...
...another as a volunteer rifleman in an infantry platoon, assaulting the Naha-Shuri line on Okinawa. The platoon was advancing into heavy machine-gun fire and sniper fire when one burst stitched down his left arm from elbow to wrist and severed the main nerve. One month later he was admitted to the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md. for a 13-month stay...