Word: bivouac
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...foxholes at dark, between 6:30 and 7 o'clock. They could not smoke, talk or leave their stations until daybreak. Anything that moved in the bivouac area after dark would be killed. As they dug in, rain fell-the heavy, soaking, almost unbelievable rain of Bougainville that swiftly rots clothes and bodies-and turned the foxholes into sticky beds...
...just came back from a nine-day bivouac. That means living in the field for nine days and nights. When I got back, there was a letter here waiting for me from my wife. In it was a clipping . . . telling about you and the Tank and Body Builders Union and what great work you were doing towards the war effort. I am damn proud to say that I am a member of such a Union as that...
When a soldier lives in the field, Charlie, he goes through a hell on earth. . . . You go to bed in a slit trench at 11:30 at night and you get up at 3:15 in the morning. When the bivouac is over and you come back to your barracks you are . . . mad at the whole damn world. Then you pick up the paper and read about some civilian war workers out on strike and that really makes you blow your...
...soldiers who hold them have changed. China's heroes are sick. For every man who lies on a reed pallet with battle wounds, ten lie ill of disease. For every man who tosses with dysentery, pneumonia or malaria in a hospital, four others suffer, unattended, in bivouac or trench. At the root of all this aching misery is a malnutrition so vast that no one dares try to cope with it. The fevers of China creep into bodies which exist day after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes of China have to draw their...
Their most embarrassing lack, for a time, was paper. They had to use cigaret papers, bamboo bark and banana leaves. Then one day the considerate Japanese showered their bivouac with printed broadsides demanding surrender. The Sparrows were grateful...