Word: bivouaced
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...from the south plowed Walter Krueger's troops, between the Red River on the east, the Sabine (boundary of Louisiana and Texas) on the west. Behind the spearhead of infantry, headed by engineers, the Blues' Second Armored Division, most experienced of U.S. Panzer units, chafed in bivouac...
They wasted their worry. After two days the Red tanks turned up again, right where they were last seen. They had been in a successfully camouflaged bivouac, waiting to make the final thrust into the Blues' vitals. But by then it was too late. Its avenues of attack canalized by a water-broken country, the Armored Force ran into traps, anti-tank posts. It was theoretically smashed by Major General Herbert A. Dargue's supporting Blue air force, which was used more skillfully than a U.S. air force had ever been used before in maneuver...
...hour period during the week, infantry soldiers of the 2yth slogged over 25 miles of road, wood and field without showing exhaustion, were still able to gibe at less active outfits as they pulled into bivouac...
...night without lights-in creek valleys, on hills, in woods. They slept on the ground, ate good food from spotless mess kits, with gusto. Every creek was a bathtub where bronzed soldiers bathed, a washtub where they laundered clothes and hung them on tree limbs to dry. In bivouac and on long halts, barbers broke out clippers and shears, went to work on soldiers' close-cropped polls. If condition, cleanliness and a kind of jeering morale were the only measures of good outfits, the Second Army needed nothing more...
...maneuvers one night last week near Camp Blanding, Fla., the loth Medical Regiment, night-foundered, weary, was glad indeed to hear the order to bivouac. One unit in particular got its pup tents up in jigtime. It had found a nice level space in the heavy woods. They turned in, slept like logs. Screeching brakes of an unlighted ambulance woke them. They had camped in the middle of a road...