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Nights, however, are pleasantly cool- one-blanket weather. Food is passable: almost all of it comes from cans. There is no food obtainable in New Guinea beyond a few paw paws, bananas and coconuts. Supply officers still laugh grimly over the suggestion from headquarters that they supplement rations by buying in the open market. The food problem is aggravated because the soldiers won't eat mutton. "These boys simply won't touch sheep," says the exasperated mess officer who watches supplies of mutton pile...
...take care of all the sick in the company of 105 who followed General Stilwell out, so I ordered each nurse to carry some first-aid articles in addition to her own stuff. So they each took out two jackets, two longyis and a sheet. They had one blanket to each three. We had 19 nurses and seven Friends' Ambulance Unit men and seven of the rest of us, by this time...
...next two years will receive them. While it may plug the biggest gaps, the bill does not provide for all the specialists now needed. And it will have to be put through the whole amending process as new needs develop. When General Hershey's office is sending out practically blanket deferments for pre-theological students, who have already been declared necessary, the demand for specialists not listed must be greater than the measure supposes. Yet this is the first time the government had aided students directly without tying on picayune work for which busy men have no time. The limited...
Drawing the lesson that tanks will not advance where they cannot see ahead, Levy told how tanks were stopped in Madrid by blankets hung across the streets. Fearing that the blankets might conceal an anti-tank gun or a tank trap, the tanks stood off and punched holes in them with one inch shells, and "you can punch a helluva lot of one-inch holes, in a blanket," he said. "A man with hand grenades could beat a tank easily at close range and in such cramped quarters," he added...
Toast of the Town. Hospitable Logansport went into a tailspin over its newfound heroes. First they were sent to a local restaurant with a blanket order for all they could eat. The Deputy Prosecutor, Kenesaw M. Landis II (nephew of the baseball commissioner), who had questioned them, took them home with him. The Elks gave a dance in their honor. Members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Elks, Eagles, Knights of Columbus and Rotary Club got together to plan a giant shindig...