What is "infantryman"

Usage examples of "infantryman".

Even when a fleeting edge of surprise could be seized, attacking ships emerging one by one from a warp point into concentrated defensive firepower were at such a disadvantage that military historians could only compare them to infantrymen advancing across an open field of Flemish mud against machine-gun emplacements.

This maneuver on the part of Cleggett and his marines and infantrymen seemed still more to excite the curiosity and contribute to the bewilderment of Loge and his ruffians.

At Division Headquarters two miles in the rear, a liaison captain with the G3 section boldly concluded that it was just a ruse to get rear echelon soldiers to go to the front lines where they would be greeted by the raucous razzberries of the infantrymen and maybe an unfriendly sniper bullet or two.

Joint Committee would later ask both Griffin and Ricketts if artillerymen used a rule of thumb about how many infantrymen should accompany a battery.

Four 148th infantrymen won the Congressional Medal of Honor, among them one of my friends, Bob Viale, whose actions .

Chambersburg only two days when Scott ordered him to wait until some regular infantrymen and several batteries of artillery reached him to give spine to his volunteers.

But McDowell seems to have said nothing about infantry support for the two batteries he proposed to push against the visible enemy guns that were beginning to arrive and that obviously were going to be defended by an unknown number of rebel infantrymen.

The infantrymen in their winged helmets and ornate armor battled on the bridge with swords and pikes, while the mass of cavalry stood detached, some trying vainly to cross the river.

Once a man even reached the Chesaux de Frise, he swept at the sabre blades with a musket, bellowing defiance, and then he was hit by an unseen French infantryman and he fell, twisting like a rag doll, down the slope and the French jeered him and poured fire down.

An infantryman still aboard his grounded skimmer caught the shimmer of a Molt tele porting in along the vector for which Hawker had warned.

The gunners in the armored car turrets and the infantrymen huddled behind vision blocks in the sides of their armored personnel carriers could see nothing--until Molt warriors tele ported into the valley.

Gregor and I were crouched behind Porta, the MG pointing skyward, ready for any attack that might be launched by Russian infantrymen in the area.

The Nikon was beautifully machined, and as an infantryman will learn to strip and clean his rifle in total darkness, Preis was changing from one lens to another by feel, forcing himself to scan the area just as a means of keeping his eyes off a procedure that had to become as natural and automatic as zipping his pants.

As he approached the bottom of the hill, Batu saw a mass of Shou infantrymen gathered in the marsh.

Fifteen thousand Shou infantrymen rushed over the crest, screaming at the tops of their lungs.