Word: bivouacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy Departments announced that six types of U.S. fighters and fighter bombers have been equipped with rocket guns, that they have been used in the Pacific, Burma and Mediterranean theaters. Rockets give little recoil when fired. Their penetration power and fanning explosions are spectacularly effective against barges, bivouac areas, fuel and ammunition dumps...
...bivouac area one night a Chinese sergeant found a sentry dozing. Next day he lined up all the sentries and turned on unshirted hell. 'We can have contempt for the Japs,' he said. 'We can even be careless with our own people, but we cannot fail our friends...
...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...