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...aspect of terror. Exhausted soldiers are forbidden to snore lest they attract the attention of snipers. But the night is full of sound. The call of a dry-throated tree frog becomes the signaling of infiltrating Japs. Pebbles falling from the edge of the foxhole on your helmet may be thrown by Japanese trying to taunt you into showing a silhouette. Such things sound fantastic to outsiders, but they are real and existent to some soldiers. Soldiers prone to panic are quickly weeded...
Patients are assigned to wards according to their injuries: there are orthopedic wards, head and spine wards, malaria, abdominal wound and dysentery wards. At his ward a patient is undressed, put in pajamas. His clothes, except for his shoes, helmet and gas mask, are stored away in a labeled bag. After that, he is X-rayed to find whatever metal he is carrying inside him, or the extent of his hurt. Then he is given what dressings and surgery he needs. As soon as a patient's condition warrants moving, he is sent to a hospital farther...
...pushed toward shore bending my knees as the water grew shallower, keeping only my helmet-covered head above the water. Finding I wasn't hit I realized that the enemy fire was surprisingly light and I forgot to be scared any longer...
...dressed in one to three sets of long wool underwear, field jacket, parka, sweaters, woolen cap beneath the helmet, two or more pairs of heavy wool socks, shoe pacs or leather boots and raincoats. Yet we always seemed to be cold. More than once we had to sleep on the wet, cold earth in our clothes. That was pretty uncomfortable, but looking at the suffering infantrymen and the supply carriers who had to take loads up steep mountains and the litter carriers who had to.bear the wounded down, we could not feel very...
When the Japs left, the townsfolk returned. Of Yukiang nothing remained but desolation. In the streets, outside burned and wrecked buildings, lay dead bodies, bearing evidence of frightful tortures. Bishop Quinn looked for Father Verdini. In the rear of the priests' compound he found his sun helmet, a muddied jacket, human bones...