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...patrol of Philippine army soldiers sidled through the jungle in search of Huk guerrillas. In a clearing they saw something moving. It proved to be a scrawny eight-month-old baby crawling along the ground. Another patrol stumbled on a pair of year-old infants wandering through a coconut grove. A farmer out fishing heard a baby's wail, searched the bushes and came across two more babies...
...first. Lieut. Smythe pulls rank on the corporal and calls him an "unpleasant brat"; he responds by calling her a "sourpuss." But in due course things get back to normal, and they are seen bounding along the beach clad in breezy tropical raiment and quaffing coconut milk. Unfortunately, their tropical paradise is short-lived, for a handsome R.A.F. pilot (Donald Gray) crash-lands on the island...
...Show. In Samoa, Henry Adams found it even harder to keep the mental fig leaf in place. He got mildly squiffed on a coconut brew called kawa. Assured that he wasn't a missionary, the native girls put on a dance. "Five girls came into the light, with a dramatic effect that really I never felt before. Naked to the waist, their rich skins glistened with coconut oil. Around their heads and necks they wore garlands of green leaves in strips, like seaweeds, and these too glistened with oil, as though the girls had come...
...Hero. As an intelligence officer, Joe often went along on missions in the rear gunner's seat. He had his picture taken there, and saw that it made Wisconsin papers. Joe used to shoot up everything in sight, on the theory that any coconut tree might hide a Jap. He hated to see a crew come home with any ammunition left. On his tent, marines hung a sign: "Protect the coconut trees-Send McCarthy back to Wisconsin...
...drowsy sentry is no worse sentry than the one who maliciously cries wolf, shoots up the coconut trees, and keeps the camp in a state of alarm and confusion...