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...mountain war for Baguio may be remembered best in time to come as the war of the Igorot women. Scores of these sturdy, brown, barefoot descendants of headhunters have padded softly out of Baguio and down through the protecting jungles into the U.S. lines. Now they are climbing back, carrying rations, water and ammunition for the 33rd Division, helping to solve a tough problem in mountain logistics...
...Barefoot Girl. The cellists had quietly wooed the woodwinds in the opening bars of Weber's Invitation to the Dance, and the woodwinds had answered softly to the climactic bar 23, when the invitation is over and the waltz begins. Suddenly from the left wings of the stage bounded a dark-haired, barefoot girl in black jersey shirt and slacks-in perfect time she lightly leaped across the stage, past the harpists, past the second violinists, behind the bent back of Maestro Toscanini, in front of the first violinists...
...fantastic mixture of a Hollywood witch-doctor picture and the American Deep South. Fierce Yap and Woleai men [who had been imported as slave labor by the Japs] did a wild sword dance. Some wore breechclouts and danced barefoot. Others stomped proudly in G.I. shoes. Mreah, a male dancer, came out blowing a harmonica, and paced a group of women in gingham wrappers. Then out came some children who piped a Japanese love song in a tune that sounded like You Are My Sunshine. Their leader, a buxom girl, started her songs by chanting, 'Wan, two, left, right...
...have been in a jungle area for almost a year. . . . Compared to our "unacclimated" American boys, the natives have proportionally much more malaria for lack of clothing after sundown; more ringworm and other foot diseases because they go barefoot; and are more susceptible to tuberculosis, pneumonia, and other diseases because of improper nutrition...
Under the warm June sunlight the rich Pennsylvania farmlands unrolled in a vision of wealth that staggered the triumphant, barefoot Army of Northern Virginia. The invasion was a picnic. It was a combination of all the entertainments of rustic America-a horse race, a chicken fry (with requisitioned chickens), a parade-and the prizes were everything that the nation could offer...