Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once ashore in that "queer, drear, roasting land," the 30,000 G.I.s of the P.G.C. (which meant Persian Gulf Command in Washington, and People Going Crazy in Iran) pulled off one of the great jobs of the war, the Lend-Lease supplying of the Red Army. They were "a weird, shambling, offbeat outfit" of white and Negro road builders, stevedores, engineers, mechanics and medics. In all their months of labor, from the winter of 1942 to the winter of 1944, they never saw an enemy plane or tank, never ducked an angry bullet. But their struggle to do an essential...
...PERSIAN GULF COMMAND-Joel Sayre -Random House...
...seen Persia," said a dreamy G.I. to Correspondent Joel Sayre as their ship entered the Persian Gulf, ''was a swell big marble layout in the moonlight with a built-in pool. Birds was singing, but not too loud, and everything smelt wonderful. Some guys with turbans was taking it easy on cushions. They had whiskers and they was having a smoke out of them jars with the hose on them and they was smothered in wonderful-looking broads . . . wearing them long peekaboo pants. Sitting on the floor was a three-piece orchestra playing Midway music. Standing out front...
Boxed truck parts were swung ashore at the Gulf, assembled into trucks on the spot and filled with supplies. Frequently the supply trucks were across the border into Russia before the Liberty ship which brought them had weighed anchor. Truck drivers worked 20-hour shifts, often on a diet of Spam and bread & jam. A hundred Diesel locomotives hauled tanks, planes, jeeps, command cars, fire engines and ammunition over the tottering railway...
...probing finger of Chinese columns, reaching to the Gulf of Tonkin, were 150,000 Japs in Indo-China and Thailand...