Word: bivouacs
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Isaiah Berlin once opined that Washington is not a city: "It's more like a vast, temporary headquarters during a campaign. . . . Washington is a bivouac...
...darkness. Only the sergeant was left in the room. "It's tough on them," he said. Soon the troop's armored cars, tanks and bantams (cavalry slang for jeeps), were rolling up the dark road, toward the rear. As we turned into the field where we would bivouac, the bearded sergeant said: "Well, it usually ends like this." He meant, not that it usually ended in retirement, but that any ending is an anticlimax for men who have survived the near brush of death...
...must be with me!" Then he would praise Salmon in public, whereupon Salmon would draw himself up: "Sir, I don't like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed about the cold, hunger, thirst, sore feet or German bullets, and only raised hell when the Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest...
...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...