Word: infantrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Immediate effect of the Book of Lynch on U. S. infantrymen will be to reduce hours spent in antiquated close-order drill, increase the days devoted to field maneuver. Smart boys will catch on in two or three weeks; chuckleheads who look to left of trees after month's end will be demoted to the awkward squad...
...soon sweep the country, to the glory of Britain and her throne. The British backed a handful of braided and powdered French officers with phony French money printed by the solid Bank of England. These cadres were also supplied by the British with arms and uniforms for 17,000 infantrymen and 6,000 cavalrymen, who were supposed to be waiting for their chance. When the expedition arrived at Quiberon Bay, it found less than half the recruits it expected, its staff work was atrocious, and the expedition was a blood-saturated flop...
...Nome, the lower Yukon Valley back of Bethel and the tundra south of Point Barrow. This summer the U. S. Army landed at Anchorage the first big contingent of troops the territory had seen in 40 years. The only other sizable garrison in Alaska consists of some 400 infantrymen at Chilkoot Barracks, a station not far from Skagway which was set up in the gold rush of '98. Tactically unimportant, Chilkoot's cold-weather garrison is likely to dwindle to a maintenance force, and Chil-koot's sourdoughboys are likely to be detailed to other Alaska stations...
Later in the week a convoyed line of big troop transports reached Egypt after an uneventful trip from Britain all the way around Africa, up the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal. The exact number of troops was not revealed, but unofficial dispatches spoke of "several thousand"-infantrymen, Australian aviators, nurses from Scotland and England, R. A. F. and naval reinforcements. Meantime Britain awaited the real Italian campaigns: against Egypt from Libya, against the Sudan from Ethiopia...
When the recess was over, the Blue Army went after the invader like a winning boxer out of his corner. Through the chilly night (the temperature got down to 41°) engineers hurried pontoon bridges across the Raquette. Before dawn, while the bridges were still abuilding, infantrymen paddled across in assault boats, and rifle fire bit the dark. Again Hugh Drum's fast-moving motorized column, riding a motley assortment of green, red and white trucks, turned up on the Blacks' south flank. By noon the Blues' artillery had crossed the Raquette behind the infantry. With pleased...