Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier keeps himself and his bunk neat and clean he has nothing to fear from the inspecting officer. If, as the young lady writes, the men all but become neurotic wrecks as the result of an anticipated inspection, then you can bet your last P. X. coupon that they must have had a hectic "night before...
There was no evidence against them, so the GPU sent them on to Actubinsk, in Kazakstan, some 3,000 miles away by rail. They made the trip in a steel prison coach ,,,with 60 other prisoners, lying six in a bunk. At Actubinsk they were released...
...same bathroom. . . . You learned that to get along well with other members of your family you must have consideration for them. . . . You have the same obligations in the Army. . . . Several hundred may have to live together . . . eat in the same mess hall, use the same bathhouse or latrine, bunk together, work together and play together...
...February morning, the wind whistles off the snow and ice of the Flatbush meadows. The barracks at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, windows open, are very, very cold. And cold seems the heart of Sergeant Earl Sanborn, USMC, who on the dot of 6:15 clumps into the bunk room in his undershirt, pipes two shrill blasts on his whistle, bellows: "Hit the deck...
...that night Private Rockefeller piled wearily into his bunk in a tent with five other soldiers. Having got through that needle's eye, he may well have reflected, the rest of the year's training would be, comparatively, heaven...