Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California desert 175 miles east of Los Angeles row upon row of darkly tanned U.S. tank soldiers sprawled and squatted, Indian style, in the dry dust. A battery of klieg lights lit up the overcast, night. One soldier climbed a telephone pole and perched there all evening...
...greeting soldiers (especially privates) with: "Hi ya, soldier! My name's Dinah. What's yours?" "Once I get them and they get me," she says, "we have a wonderful time." She has stopped her car to sing her head off to a one-man sentry in the desert...
Africa is divided by two great military barriers: the jungles of the Congo, which isolate British South Africa from most of the continent, and the Sahara desert, which divides the Mediterranean littoral (now mostly Vichy-and Axis-held) from the more habitable portion of the tropics lying north of the Congo (see map). By cleaning out Dakar, Timbuktu and other small holdings, the United Nations would have this central belt within their grasp...
...newsreel of the disastrous Malay and Burma campaigns. With their faces painted green and in green uniforms, Japanese troops moved over the "impenetrable" Owen Stanley mountains. In the great equatorial-rain forests' "battle of lungs" the Japs had the advantage against Australian troops (accustomed to a dry desert climate). Wearily the Australians and some U.S. service troops (engineers, etc.) prepared for a last-ditch stand. The fighting was so fierce that "no prisoners have been taken yet." Australians said the Japs killed their own wounded, played "possum" among dead soldiers and rose up to throw hand grenades...
...whether they held the pass when the sun slanted down and washed the plain in yellow and gold. For them the real object of their maneuvers was to get an early crack at Rommel's tankers. From the first day they arrived at the railroad siding near the Desert Training Center (and half of many companies keeled over from heat prostration) to the day last week at the pass, to Needles, these men had grown tough and disciplined. They had fought over an area bigger than Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware combined, and they had learned...