Word: bivouacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...night of my arrival on Guadalcanal (Sept. 1) the Marine positions were bombed twice by large flights of Japanese aircraft. Shortly after midnight three enemy warships, either cruisers or destroyers, slipped in to shore some 15 miles to the east of our bivouac and were landing troops and supplies...
...Bivouac. At dusk the columns draw close to the shelter of a mountainside and scraggly clumps of paloverde and green-silver, dusty-needled tamarisk trees. Every vehicle halts a good distance from every other: there are no clusters of machines to make targets for surprise air attacks...
Once his men were in Africa, Rommel made them as comfortable as possible. Each man got his own green bivouac tent, with a floor, and a pack containing a camp stove, solid fuel, eye lotion, mouthwash, body powder, washing sets, flashlight, billfolds. Rations included beer, coffee, tinned and fresh meat, lemons, potatoes, onions. Hospitals were never short of anything. At the rest camps in the rear there were beer gardens, brass bands, playing grounds, movies...