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Show Foot Soldiers "It is the foot soldier who takes the grond and holds it," says Wright Bryan, distinquished correspondent cor-respondent of the Atlanta Journal, Jour-nal, now covering the invasion in Normandy. Naturally, every American pays tribute to all our fighting men. Each contributes a necessary and, at times, decisive punch in battle. bat-tle. The men of the air corps, however, have gotten most of the 1 glory. Other spectacular units have received fine publicity. I We would not deny them the satisfaction that comes from knowing that their work'is appreciated.- However, it became necessary some months ago for the high commands to say a few words about the foot-slogging infantryman infantry-man in order to stimulate enlistment enlist-ment in the undramatized branch of the service. Recently, Gen. Montgomery, while paying tribute to all service serv-ice units, found it advisable to express his gratitude to the infantry in-fantry "who must bear the heat and battle." They may not be spectacular, he added, but "there is no doubt they are the guts of the whole show, backbone of the whole thing and, by Jove, they do.their stuff." |