Word: riflemen
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...this strip, Jap snipers and machine-gunners were firing. In a little revetment was the headquarters of Major Henry P. ("Jim") Crowe, a tough, red-mustached veteran who had risen from the Marine ranks to command of one of the assault battalions. Near by passed a parade of wiremen, riflemen, mortarmen and stretcher bearers...
French Advance. When troops attempted to arrest the rump officials in their hill-country headquarters, Arslan whistled up his Druse riflemen and for three hours skirmished with French forces. The mixup ended when British troops moved in between and clamped down...
...Colonel, his short legs pumping up & down with extraordinary speed, churned straight up the slope toward the firing. A queer glimmer of a smile played around his lips. Three riflemen, an officer called Jack, two soldiers with walkie-talkies and I scrambled after him, while the rest of the battalion flew across the lower slopes...
...Germans had sown the slopes and the ridge with mines, booby traps, concealed anti-tank guns, mortars, machine guns and riflemen. Three times before, the third battalion had tried to take 532 and each time they had been driven back with losses...
...have for centuries dominated or attempted to dominate Europe. ... To the militarist the resources of the Asiatic powder keg mean more than generalities. . . . The manpower of this continent has great military significance. . . . Every battalion of natives that a Hitler could raise in Asia would release a battalion of German riflemen for one of the mechanical arms. . . ." Until the days of mechanized armies, says Kiralfy, the problem of invading Asia was almost as difficult for modern armies as for Alexander the Great. But "the dive-bomber and the tank have removed many of the hardships and perils which formerly confronted...