Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with MacArthur's recapture of Manila, the U.S. passed a great milestone in World War II. In the final, dark hours of the week, as U.S. mechanized cavalrymen battered through a Japanese road barrier and roared into Manila from the east, the event was more than the attaining of a great objective: it was a high-water mark in the inexorable rising tide of the American war effort. No one doubted that there would be hard fighting aplenty before the Philippines were entirely redeemed; but Manila was the crown and symbol of the entire Southwest Pacific campaign...
...Race on the Roads. The stage was set for the big third act. To play the principal role, both Buckeyes and cavalrymen drove swiftly southward. The cavalry had mechanization and thus the big advantage. While Beightler's foot-slogging Buckeyes hurried along, cleaning out nest after nest of Japs as they went, Mudge's cavalrymen piled into trucks, jeeps and half-tracks at Guimba and ripped toward Manila over Highway...
...then the 32nd and the dismounted 1st Cavalry Division had driven south in the Ormoc corridor; the Texas cavalrymen had joined with the 7th and 77th Divisions. All the Japs east of the corridor were cut off, and although some would filter back to the northwestern peninsula, they would have little hope of survival or escape. For the 77th turned west and soon brought Palompon, the Japs' last port of exit, under its guns...
...Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...
...last week's battle thousands of Rumanians laid down their arms. One group emerged from a forest hideout, begged Cossack cavalrymen: "Please take us prisoners!" The scornful Russians cried, "Back there! Back there!" sent them into internment without guards...