Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curriculum that broke with tradition. Its text was the first-hand experience of men who had met the Japs. And the curriculum was crammed with such subjects as how to finish a tough, bayoneting, backbreaking, eye-gouging fight; how to make the maximum use of natural cover in the battlefield; how to advance using cover in the face of gunfire. In Ben Lear's school the gunfire is real. The soldier who forgets his lesson can well be hurt or killed...
...fifth portable is established on an abandoned battlefield which has not yet been cleaned up because rain and mud makes it impossible to burn the place over or carry anything away. Jap corpses still inhabit the pillboxes (which the Australian tanks crushed), and sometimes the rain washes them into view. Humorous, bird-like Surgeon John Lambert of the fifth portable had a dream the other night: he found a Japanese map showing the whole Buna area under water, and he remembers saying, "Gee, the Japs make much better maps than...
...horrifying job that defies description. All armies depend on their-engineers to do it. One detector is a sort of divining rod that works on an electromagnetic circuit, creates a buzz in the engineer's earphones when held over a buried mine. Such equipment is cumbersome on a battlefield, and British sappers prefer the old poke-&-dig method (see cut). Once the mines are discovered, each-whether there are 250 or 25,000-must be dug up with a fine touch...
...most New Deal bigwigs had become anathema. Such good New Dealers as Henry Morgenthau, Price Boss Leon Henderson and Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, who were in the bitter struggles of organizing the nation for war, had left much of their popularity and most of their political blood on the battlefield-and had won no administrative medals...
...face which looked down on those reports was itself like a battlefield. Everything about it was big, broad, strong. The weather had been on it, and personal suffering behind it. The huge mouth looked like command, and above it, the nose was pugnacious. The eyes were aggressive. They and their screen of brow above the weariness below were as impressive and busy-looking as a couple of task forces. The face, as it read the reports, was thoughtful...