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Of all the weapons of war, the bulldozer stands first. Airplanes and tanks may be more romantic, appeal more to the public imagination, but the Army's advance depends on the unromantic, unsung hero who drives the "cat."
Here in Italy, for more than nine months, an Engineer Combat Group has paced the advance of the Fifth Army, through the mountains and marshes of Campagna. Throughout the winter it was mud: mud miring down the trucks; mud miring down the tanks; mud even, on a few occasions, miring down the 'dozers themselves. But in every case the solution, also, was the "cat."
Did a gun need to get off the road into position? See if the Engineers can 'doze it into place. Was a hospital unable to get its ambulances up to the receiving ward because of the sea of...