Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mule Sense. At first the mules brayed in distress when the caravan was attacked; amateur muleskinners hauled them away in all directions. The mules resisted loudly: they had been taught by U.S. cavalrymen to trot in a decorous file after a bell mare...
This was the Ukraine in spring: sparkling puddles, shell craters, blistered, blackened tanks, the sullen stench of battle and unburied soldiers. Along the muddy roads, Red Army tractors tugged at stalled trucks and mired cannon. Red artillerymen whipped their foamy horses. Red cavalrymen trotted briskly through the muck, bespattering weary, sweating infantrymen on the way to another battle...
Some of the Nips embraced death with a song on their lips, "Deep in the Heart of Texas," which gave wry satisfaction to the Texas cavalrymen who killed them. The survivors of the blast of U.S. fire ended it all by hugging grenades and pulling the pins. Said an American general veteran of the last war, "the strangest thing I have ever witnessed...
...faint light of the moon the Americans watched the Japanese creep toward them from the edge of the airstrip. Sometimes Japs crawled to the very edge of the cavalrymen's foxholes before they were killed. One major told me he was going to sleep in his hammock that night and suggested that I do the same thing. During the night, however, troops near by heard a commotion and the major called out: 'Don't shoot, boys, it's Major - !' Nothing more was heard. The next morning they found the major dead, his head nearly severed...
...same kind of warfare which unnerved U.S. troops on New Georgia last July. More Japs arrived from nearby Manus Island. Still the cavalrymen held...