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...extraordinary amount of equipment. His .25-caliber rifle or machine gun is light and accurate to 1,000 yards. He can carry 400 rounds of its little bullets, twice as many as the load of larger bullets the larger U.S. trooper totes. He carries a bayonet, a canteen, a helmet with a little gold star on it. He carries five days' rations of rice and sardines, and he tends his own cooking...
...nnhilde. Helen Traubel, herself pinch-hitting for Kirsten Flagstad (immured in Norway for the duration), took cold. Astrid Varnay found herself dressed up again ; this time in a red wig, a hand-me-down cuirass and tunic of one of the Valkyrie maids, a man's heavy helmet. Again the debutasters were amazed...
...mask, which he would need more than legs in case of a heavy dust storm, and he had tucked away half a dozen pairs of flimsy Cellophane dust-goggles. He had pinched a piece of netting from a truck's camouflage to drape over his helmet-both for his personal camouflage and for swishing away flies. He had bound up the desert sores on the backs of his hands...
...what must have been a garden. A dud bomb is buried in the roadside mud. The front half of an armored car is parked in the shadow of what was once a house. A bent, bullet-riddled fragment of what had been a tank lies near a dirt-caked helmet. The helmet looks like a tortoise's back: it smells sour...
...jumper, he leaped five times from altitudes up to 16,500 feet, laden with his weight in equipment. His baggage: a device to measure altitude and his breathing rate; a microphone; a motion-picture camera to record turns of his body; a stop watch; a special oxygen mask and helmet...