Word: rifleman
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...first three waves got in almost untouched. A battalion executive officer said: "As we hit the beach a scrawny little Jap jumped out of his trench. He was the only Jap we saw for some time after hitting the beach. There was a big rifleman right in front of him. The rifleman was so surprised he forgot to use his weapons. This 6-ft. guy of ours grabbed the Jap and started wrestling with him. He got him by the neck and shook him, swinging him all the way around. He had almost killed the Jap with his bare hands...
...quick capture of Cassino (although the infantry has also repeatedly failed to take the town, either with or without air aid). But the public is not likely to give the infantry due credit so long as it pictures him merely as an oldfashioned, unimaginative, foot-slogging rifleman...
...heart set on supply ship billet, but the ship has to be "definitely in the Pacific!" By the time he reports following graduation, he should have his two full stripes, for the last ALNAV just missed him. Those four ribbons he wears are for expert rifleman, American theater, Asiatic-Pacific theater, and pre-Pearl Harbor...
...search for facts on fear 18 months ago, the biggest available group of Americans who had felt the impact of modern war was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade-the volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. (The study concerned their military experience, not their political views.) "The typical informant was a rifleman, noncommissioned, poorly trained by American Army standards, wounded. All observers seem to agree that he was a tough fighting...
...ones. Bogart, a tank commander, is separated from the rest of the army in good lost-patrol tradition. In trying to catch up with the retreating British forces, he picks up a motley assortment of stragglers: a few Englishmen, a Free Frenchman, a Sudanese rifleman (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), and a German pilot shot down by the tank's accurate fire...