Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georgie Patton would hardly recognize his Desert Training Center today. Where the first 8,000 men of his Armored Force sweated 15 months ago, rehearsing for Tunisia, today nearly 200,000 troops of all kinds, save only WACs and paratroops, are being finally hardened for the fighting in Europe and Asia. The huge oval area in southern California and western Arizona has expanded until it is now larger than England. It is the biggest Army training area...
...border to Boulder City, Nev., stretches this waste of land that only the Army could want. Where a year ago there were only parched hamlets hundreds of miles apart, now there are seven major camps, dozens of other establishments, nine airdromes, 42 landing strips, five major hospitals. Across the desert swirl 25,000 general-purpose vehicles (jeeps, etc.) and 2,500 tactical vehicles (tanks...
...enough, no one bothers to say anything. Finally he got some mail himself. His family was moving from Lorain, Ohio (where his girl lives), to California, so he would have plenty of fresh air and open spaces when he got home. Sergeant Jerkovich is now living in a desert where the only thing to interrupt the fresh air and open spaces for 50 miles around is a herd of sheep...
...trucks took all the crews out to the planes, which were dispersed for acres. Shortly before taxi time the crews climbed aboard and the roar began which was the roar of numbers, and a dust cloud rose up which seemed to be the dust of a multitude on the desert...
Significant Separation. In British, Indian, U.S. and Chinese eyes, the most significant thing in the Indian shake-up was the separate East Asia command for operations against Japan. Neither General Wavell nor General Auchinleck would head that command. Sir Archibald, who chased and was chased in North African desert warfare, fared poorly in the last Burmese jungle campaign (TIME, May 31). A new great Allied offensive to reopen the Burma Road to China might be launched in the fall, and its commander might be Chinese-speaking U.S. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell. But as Viceroy, Wavell would also play...