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Infantry Journal      March 1945          Vol. LVI No. 3          86 Pages

Cover: Command Post in Europe (Signal Corps photo)

Inside Articles:

The Job of the Infantry

One Step Westward
Tiny Wakde Island isn’t much to look at either on the map or on the ground, but its airfield was important to the westward advance of the Southwest Pacific Forces, and so the Infantry took it.
By a Battalion Commander

Battle Facts For Your Outfit
     Bougainville Pay-Off
     By Captain Jack M. Tucker
     Don’t Cry “Medic.”
     By Lieutenant Joseph C. Raymond
     Why Not Tanks?
     By Lieutenant Colonels Roy E. Moore and Lyle W. Bernard
     Bazookas on Biak
From the 29th Infantry Division
     By Lieutenant Colonel William H. Puntenney
     No Close Air Support, Please
     This article is a part of a much longer article “Battalion Landing Teams in Amphibious Operations” with which Colonel Cushman won the Marine Corps Gazette $500 prize article contest. The complete article appeared in the January 1945 Gazette and the portion that appears here is reprinted by permission of the Marine Corps Gazette.
     By Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Cushman, Jr. USMC
     Your Enemy: The Jap
     By Colonel A. G. Foxx
     Give it to Them
     Your rifle companies deserve all the support the heavy mortar platoon can deliver. Give it to them!
     By Lieutenant Charles T. Lloyd
     First Day of Battle (Siersdorf, Germany)
     Private H. M. Walton, 29th Infantry Division.
     It’s, a Tough Racket (Training vs. Real Thing)
     By Lieutenant Ohio
     Charge
     What actually happens when the infantryman closes in for the kill?
     By Lieutenant Colonel Fred L. Walker, Jr.
     Oriental Obliteration
     (Staff Sergeant Woodrow D. Stidd, Corporal William W. Hardy, Private First Class Herbert R. Salone)
     By Lieutenant Colonel Paul S. Shoemaker
     German Defensive Positions
     Drawn by Technician Fifth Grade Henry J. MacMillan
     Behind the German Lines
     Pictures from Captured and Neutral Sources Give Hint of the Lot of the German Soldier

The Indian Army
By Lieutenant Colonel James W. Bellah

Squad and Platoon Battle Drill
Here’s a preview of the new training circular Combat Formations that supersedes part of Chapter 10, FM 22-5

GI Newspaper
(45th Division News)
By Sergeant Don Robinson

International Military Survey

For Those Coming Back.
(A review by G. V.)

When the Red Army Attacks a City
(Lieutenant Colonel V. Kravtsov)
By Major Q

Editorials
     1st Combat Infantry Band
     The Fifth Army, the Infantry, and Combat Rotation
     Air Support
     Championship Team
     Universal Service
     The Honor Roll

Honor Roll
It is chiefly through the support of the loyal 100% member units that the Infantry Association is able to maintain the high standards of The INFANTRY JOURNAL as a magazine for fighting men. Each star represents one completed year of all-out membership in the Association by every Infantry officer and unit within the organizations listed below.

To The Editors
     In the Hürtgen Forest
     Communication Sergeants, Rifle Company
     Military Training After the War
     Medic In Germany
     Article Suggestions
     “From the Hip”
     From ETO
     “Short History”
     “Better, Next Time”
     Badge For Medics

Cerebrations
Our literate cocktail-hour tacticians stand to receive as much as $10.00 for their contributions to this department. However, the price for those “dashed off” with scant consideration for the rules of composition and rhetoric will continue to hover around the $3.00 minimum. Cerebrations should be held to four or five hundred words and should be submitted double-spaced. They will not be acknowledged or returned. If accepted, you will hear from the paymaster in due course. Inquiries as to the fate of those not published within six months should be addressed to the janitor.

     Phones
     (Sergeant Richard A. Nelson)
     By Lieutenant Richard A. Preston, Jr.
     Tell ’em What The Score Is
     Deep Mound Latrine
     The Small Contribution
     By Sergeant Malcolm F. Sabiston
     Tips from Guam
     By Private First Class Steven Fogaris

Meet Our Authors
     Lieutenant Colonel James W. Bellah served for several months in the Southeast Asia Command, where he had an opportunity to observe the Indian soldier—officers and enlisted men—in combat and in training. In civilian life he was a well known writer, and since coming in the Army he has been a regular contributor to The Infantry Journal.
     Lieutenant Colonel Lyle W. Bernard, Infantry, commanded the 2d Battalion, 30th Infantry, in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. He was wounded on the Anzio beachhead and returned to the U. S. for duty. He has the distinction of having made five assault landings on hostile shores: Fedala, North Africa; Licata, Sicily; behind the German lines on the north coast of Sicily; a repeat performance behind the German lines at Brolo, Sicily, two nights later (Jack Belden describes it vividly in Still Time to Die); and at Anzio, Italy. Colonel Bernard is a graduate of the Military Academy and has been awarded the Silver Star, the Purple Heart, and the British DSO.
     Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Cushman, Jr., has had combat experience as executive officer of the 2d Battalion, 9th Marines. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
     Colonel A. G. Foxx is the pseudonym used by an officer of the Regular Army.
     First Lieutenant Charles T. Lloyd is with the 134th Infantry, 35th Infantry Division, in Europe.
     Lieutenant Colonel Roy E. Moore, Infantry, was in combat with the 15th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division, for almost two years. His first article in The Journal, “Battle Patrol,” appeared in November 1944. He is a graduate of the Military Academy.
     Lieutenant Ohio is the pseudonym of a lieutenant of Infantry in Europe with the 84th Infantry Division.
     Major Q is the pseudonym of an officer on duty as assistant military attaché at a foreign capital.
     First Lieutenant Joseph C. Raymond, MAC, is serving with a medical battalion of the 81st Infantry Division in the Pacific and had combat experience on Angaur and Peleliu Islands in the Palau group.
     Sergeant Don Robinson is editor of the 45th Division News.
     Captain Jack M. Tucker is on duty with the Americal Division in the Pacific. “Bougainville Pay-Off” is his second contribution to The Journal, the first appearing under a pseudonym.
     Private H. M. Walton is in Europe with the 29th Infantry Division.

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