Word: bog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peat-bog soldiers...
...marching with our spades to the bog...
Heath and bog are everywhere...
...Bailey who now has a pigskin folder engraved in gold with words "Honorable Discharge from the U. S. Navy." Of course, the little slip of paper to fill the folder is still missing; and Ned hastens to explain that he's not really eager to leave "The Bog" or Boston for home but semper paratus...
...Night. Impatient of routine and red tape, Patton habitually asks and gets the impossible from his supply men. During the winter bog-down on the Saar front, the Third's tanks floundered in the greasy mud. Someone recommended "duck bills"-metal flanges to be welded to tank treads to give them wider grip. Patton tried to get them, "through channels," and finally got 168 duck bills- enough to equip one tank. Next day four companies of the Third's ordnance mechanics, about 1,000 men, were set to work on scrapped treads and other material. Patton wanted duck...