Word: riflemen
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China choked within the Jap blockade. Her lack of supplies, particularly heavy weapons for an army of riflemen and grenade-throwers, had become so vast that a new Burma Road could not satisfy it. Perhaps nothing less than an Allied landing on the China coast and the winning of a major supply port would do. Now the Japs, astride the Hankow-Canton line, threatened to cut this desperate hope. Certainly, until the blockade was thoroughly broken, no one could expect the ill-fed, ill-munitioned Chinese armies to take the offensive...
...Newest Allies. One clear reason for the spectacular Allied advance was the heroic determination of the troops Hitler had to stop. Almost unanimously, correspondents picked as their fighting favorites the French troops-Moroccan Goums, Senegalese infantrymen and Algerian riflemen serving under French officers and noncoms. Some of them had actually fought on opposite sides in the Fighting French-Vichy squabbles in Syria three years...
...driver gravely touched his two-star cap. General Charles de Gaulle, Commander in Chief, had come to watch his countrymen redeem themselves in the fierce last round of the battle for Italy. For the Frenchmen and noncoms (if not for the dark Goums, shiny Senegalese and swarthy Algerian riflemen who fought with them) it was the start of the battle for France...
...drawled to his aide: "There's a couple of pheasant-in that field over there." His aide, Captain Lewis D. Bridge, peering at the brownish specks 300 yards away, could recall with good reason that his boss was a famous hunter, one of the Army's finest riflemen and skeet shooters...
...their January enlistment goal on Thanksgiving Day: 12,023 women, including 515 officers. Their authorized total: 18,000 enlisted personnel and 1,000 officers by July1, 1944. More than half the women of the Corps are already on duty in 125 different jobs once held by strapping riflemen, whom they released for men's work...