Word: reconnoiterers
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In charge of two LCMs (landing craft, mechanized), Telker had set out on a routine job of ferrying caterpillar tractors from Leyte to nearby Samar. He was puzzled when Jap planes strafed his craft, dumfounded when, after putting ashore in a small cove to reconnoiter, he was welcomed by jubilant...
This ill-fated detachment had been sent out to reconnoiter for 5,000 to 7,000 German troops, the remnants of several battered divisions which had been cut off in the woods east of Minsk. Their communications had been so completely severed that they no longer knew where the fighting...
Voronov virtually rewrote the artillery manual, changed commanders again & again. He preached constantly: reconnoiter thoroughly, camouflage tirelessly, do not fear close-range combat, do not fear encirclement. Stalin helped him out: a separate commissariat was set up to build trench mortars.
These rugged frontiersmen make up one of the most highly specialized groups in the U.S. Army. Their assignments: 1) to explore unknown parts of the Aleutians and the coastal wildernesses of Alaska, with a wary eye for any sign of Japs; 2) to reconnoiter desolate islands and pave the way...
"About midnight, from our front lines two scouting parties totaling seven or eight men each began a careful reconnoiter toward Soochow. They stealthily followed two large bodies of Chinese troops retreating toward the city. The Soochow gates stood wide open and the Chinese forces marched in and stacked their bayoneted...