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...battlefield, both parties sent out patrols to bring the voter back. The landscape was filled with glittering people, celebrities eager to serve as volunteer stretcher-bearers...
Hiding by day, riding by night, the Japanese last week ground out new and ominous gains in their China offensive-the greatest land campaign ever fought by the men from the little island empire. Although the nearest battlefield was almost 350 miles from Chungking, the atmosphere in the capital was heavy with disaster. The Jap drive was a new and terrible threat to the very heart of Free China, the stronghold area lying in a quadrilateral between Chengtu, Chungking, Kweiyang and Kunming...
...large part a Washington job, by Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell's Army Service Forces and his chief planner, cool, efficient Major General Leroy Lutes. They were the wholesalers, getting the supplies from the producers, estimating how much could go to Europe (and how much to every other battlefield in the world), and delivering them on the far shore of the ocean in the quantities needed and at the time required...
...weathered old sea eagle had been retired eight years. He told the Admiralty: "I want to die on a battlefield-not in bed." Said the Admiralty: "Too old." Eventually he was given an assignment deemed suitable for a superannuated sailor-as liaison officer to the Mediterranean commander Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham. Sir Walter, still alarmed by the risk of dying in bed, got Cunningham to assign him to the Commandos, to train Commando-men in handling small boats...
Before & behind them companies, battalions, regiments and divisions of the Nineteenth Army still scurried this way & that, like bugs uncovered by the lifting of a stone. On a battlefield long isolated by one of the most precise air operations of the war, they were all but bereft of tanks, bitterly short of food, cut off from all help from their carefully laid supply systems...