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...quivering on his cot. Patton slapped him sharply across the face, turned to the commanding medical officer who had come in when he heard Patton's high-pitched imprecations. "I want you to get that man out of here right away. I won't have these other brave boys seeing such a bastard babied...
...Allied air fleets taking off. Around midnight he went to the Naval War Room, where British Admiralty officials, who were in charge of the tactical operation until the troops actually landed, had the latest information to give him. Later he got three hours of sound sleep on a cot, awoke at 4:30 a.m. to have tea with the Royal Navy men and hear the news: landing operations were going according to plan...
...prospective parents also pay a call, but obligingly scram before the place becomes an out-&-out maternity ward. Between whiles there are some highly transient maids, some escapist drinking by the long-suffering older folk, and a sour maiden aunt who, deprived of her bed, is forced to take cot luck in the living room...
...matter arose when he was asked concerning a recent statement by Pierre Cot, former French Minister of Aviation, before a Senate committee that the fall of France could be blamed partly on the fact that the French Army was too big, Cot said French war production had not been able to keep pace with the increase of the army and that the army was one of men and machines...
From the Naval Hospital in San Diego came an unforgettable story of valor on a bloody night on jungled Guadalcanal. On an iron hospital cot lay Marine Private Albert A. Schmid, 23, husky son of a Philadelphia brewery worker, who, on a moonlight night last August, manned a machine gun that almost singlehandedly cut off an enemy advance...