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...Vinegar Joe" could see, nothing had gone wrong. Under his eye, the Chinese fought well. Their artillery mor tars laid down effective cross fire on Jap trenches, the infantry charged bravely with grenades and rifles. One Chinese soldier penetrated a Jap dugout and, pulling the pin in his grenade, blew himself and three Japs to kingdom come. In four days the Chinese killed an estimated 300 Japs, drove the rest south. Jubilant Chinese presented Stilwell with a captured Samurai sword. Jubilant Stilwell returned to India...
Fighting in India, in the Soudan, in the Boer War, he walked or rode through many a space filled with pinging bullets. In World War I, German shells demolished a dugout five minutes after he had left it. Shortly after that, he was in a "Plug-street" (Ploegsteert, a village in Flanders) farmhouse when a shell came through the roof, wounded only his adjutant...
...hunter" pulls a trigger, releases a high-pressure charge which saturates the air of tent, hut, or dugout with a quick insect-killing mixture of sesame oil and extract of pyrethrum flowers, vaporized by Freon. Aerosol, says the Army, tracks down mosquitoes to the last, remote fold of clothing and tent. Chief producer of aerosol is Westinghouse. But Freon is still the essential spreading agent of aerosol...
...Eagles. Best-heeled of the Negro majors are the Newark Eagles, owned by a hula-hipped Harlem beauty named Effa Manley. Effa received the club as a present from her husband, a onetime Jersey big shot. She appointed herself field manager, until recently directed her players from the dugout in a manner that would have tickled the late great John McGraw...
...Army's Desert Training Center (Calif.), Captain Francis E. Rogan made an inspection, finally commented: "The camouflage is only fair. They'd better work on it." Then he drove his staff car smack into the outfit's camouflaged staff headquarters, crashed one wheel into a dugout room...