Word: gurkha
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...roads to Mandalay had never seen such strange companies of men: long-bearded Sikhs, tall, blond Britons, swart Gurkhas. Their companions were as strange. On almost every truck and tank perched a sad-faced monkey. A sheep marched beside an Indian Army officer, took cover with him in battle, lay down beside him at night. Fierce Gurkha warriors walked beside their mules, talked affectionately to them, brushed them devotedly (a Gurkha looks upon a mule as infallible, and weeps like a child when one is killed...
...Screams tear the night and the wrecker crew claws into the wreckage with bare hands to get at the injured. A British surgeon is already inside doing something under a flashlight, something quite frightful with his kukris [Gurkha sword] after his morphine has stilled the screaming...
...below. Collier's War Correspondent Frank Gevasi reported: "I saw 800 [Americans] go out and 24 come back, because the Germans could see every move and turn their fire on them." And the Germans, after noting heavy, bloody U.S. losses, laconically reported in a communiqué that Indian Gurkha troops had replaced "the worn-out Americans...
There is a saying that the only thing which tires a Gurkha is walking along a flat place. They went up Djebel Fatnassa with their wicked kukris, long curved blades sharpened on the inner edge, at the ready. In Nepal they use kukris to cut their enemies' heads off. At Djebel Fatnassa they reached their objectives with hardly a sound; dying Italians made the only noises...
Tactics with Firecrackers. The rubber planters, civil servants and clerks of Malaya formed a sort of Home Guard and went out into the jungle, where few escaped death or capture. They flew ancient pleasure and training planes against Japanese Zeros. The regular battalions of British, Indian, Gurkha and Australian troops fought with tragic bravery. Weller's account of these men in action is also a brilliant story of Japanese fighting methods...