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They drill after sundown in small groups, grimly determined to pivot smartly on the command of "Squads right." They swallow their bitterest potion-barrack life, bunk to bunk-without a murmur on the invasion of their privacy. (One WAAC did use her weekend liberty two weeks after induction to take a large double room in the Fort Des Moines Hotel and sit happily alone in the middle of it.) For four hours a day, for a full day and a half at week's end the WAACs can do what they please. When the study hall closes...
...Army wants it understood the men are not to be feted as heroes; they are to slip quietly back into their jobs, tell their stories "without embellishment" to their bunk mates in the Armored Force, preach the value of maneuvers. Their only reward, other than their experience: each was advanced one grade...
Nothing annoys Lord Louis more than this public clatter for immediate, all-out invasion. To him, it smacks of wishful bunk. He knows all about the days and weeks of reconnaissance, the painstaking study of land maps, ocean charts, weather cycles and models of likely invasion points, which it takes to prepare one of his quick stabs at Nazi Europe. So it is only natural that when second-front talk comes up, Lord Louis' long face tightens...
...many very intimately, and others with everlasting gratitude. Anything that goes wrong at the University disturbs him as much as it does the most faithful graduate. Harvard will always be what it is today to Benny. All the talk about it never being the same after the war is "bunk" to him. Harvard will never change, it can't he says. It's too solid and fine to have to change, even if all the rest of the world does. Benny wants the same Harvard for his son to go to as other sons have had in the past...
...were weak after 60 hours at sea without food or water. Distributing them aboard a Catalina built to accommodate only its crew took a lot of doing. Some were stowed in the bombing compartment, one on the deck between the pilots' seats; the woman was put in a bunk...