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...next night a group of Negro troops slipped out of their quarters, armed themselves with stones and poured into the barracks where the Italians were asleep. The riot had reached serious proportions before MPs dashed in and broke it up. Twenty six Italians, three U.S. soldiers attached to the unit as interpreters were sent to hospital; the Negro rioters were confined to quarters along with the rest of their unit...
...when you're at work you feel fairly all right because you've got a fair shelter and a good roof spotter elected by the men so he's trustworthy. And once you're asleep in your own Anderson it's not too bad because you're so tired you don't give a damn anyway. The bad time is the in-between time. From the moment you knock off you are on edge. Christ, it's all very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there...
...reads detective stories until he falls asleep, usually about 11:30 p.m. He does not care about their quality, will even read the same one twice...
...Normandy, a group of U.S. soldiers, dog-tired after a day of marching, fighting, marching again, flopped down in a roadside ditch for a cat nap, landed on six Nazi soldiers already asleep. Grumbled one doughboy, after the Nazis were captured: "Damn it, a G.I.'s work is never done...
...lying asleep by the railway station one night in the rain, then I woke up because there was a train going by. They were stuffed on roofs and in boxcars. They had lashed themselves to couplings between cars. There were refugees on the cowcatcher in front; underneath the trains they had laid some boards across the rods between the wheels. They stretched their mattresses on the boards and there they were, lying one on top of the other between the rods and trains...