Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient caravan route, six oases to Baboon pass, six oases to Kami, along the rim of the Celestial Mountains, past the Red Salt Lake and the Blue Salt Lake." It is two days by plane to Urumchi and then two weeks by ancient truck across the drifting, trackless desert to Kashgar near the Russian border...
...supply our own gasoline (it cost 45,000 Chinese dollars). We started off with a party of nine: myself and LIFE Photographer Bill Vandivert, a crack Chinese documentary film team, a driver, a mechanic and three gendarmes to guard us on the desert. Coming back we had to get a tenth into the car for the driver bought a Turki girl in Kashgar for $200 (rather pretty though unwashed) and perched her high on the topmost mound of baggage...
...trip to Kashgar and back along the edge of the Taklamakan Desert was one of the great experiences of our lives. We followed a route as old as history itself: Marco Polo passed over it, Tamerlane sacked it, the Chinese built watchtowers to guard it. The ruins are still there, and even the caravans are the same. We photographed everything- sipped tea and ate melons with all the little officials who came out to meet us -got our story by putting together a hundred fragments that told us what their lives had been...
...after a marine. The marine was Lieut. Presley N. O'Bannon, a whooping, crop-haired Irishman from Kentucky, who in 1805 led the Marines (seven of them) to the "shores of Tripoli." O'Bannon and a motley crew of Greeks, Arabs and Egyptians marched across the Libyan desert to attack the Barbary pirates in their stronghold at Derna. After considerable derring-do, O'Bannon breached the ramparts, raised the Stars and Stripes...
Another documentary showing, last fortnight, was Tunisian Victory, the U.S. and British Governments' long-awaited sequel to Desert Victory (TIME, April 12, 1943). Tunisian Victory is worth seeing if only for a few minutes aboard the two lordliest convoys in history (they carried the British and Americans to Africa). There are some eye-shattering shots of combat, too. The film was made with care and skill, but the intricate military story is told too doggedly, with too much commentary. A general high-surface of tact and politeness reduces the film's forces as a record of truth. Most...