Word: homesickness
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...whose upended feet were dusty with the sands of France. Medical Corpsmen moved among them, looking at their wound tags. Some of the wounded were smoking. *A homesick U.S. soldier said wryly: "Is that really England? I never thought I wanted to see the goddam country again but now it looks like heaven." Some of the men had their eyes closed. Over the faces of some, blankets had been drawn. As the wounded and the dead came back, other soldiers, with flowers stuck in the camouflage netting of their tin hats, marched past them through the streets of the English...
Transcriptions of popular U.S. programs like the Hit Parade came through with the commercial plugs neatly excised. Whereupon the G.I.s complained: they were homesick for commercials. A sergeant named Buell Snyder, who used to be a professional contest winner in private life, volunteered to fill the bill. His versions of commercials have been a resounding success. Sample...
...sweetheart of World War II was on her way to another front-the Caribbean. When Frances Langford gets there the next week or so, she can expect the same kind of admiration she has inspired in homesick doughboys from Alaska to Sicily. No other female entertainer in World War II can touch it. "She knows just how much sex to pour and still be dignified," is Bob Hope's explanation. General Eisenhower, who has misgivings about women entertainers at the front, was so moved by her impact upon his North African troops that he thanked her warmly, "especially...
...cough that sounded to me like pneumonia, who nevertheless drove twelve miles out of his way to get a lost kid from Georgia back to his outfit; the girl from Oregon who was hanging curtains at a dust-smothered "basha" to make it look a bit like home to homesick boys; and the wounded from the landing beaches of Italy who, after the general had decorated 22 of their comrades, sang God Bless America, will stand forever on my list of the most religious men and women I have...
...troops on the island have grown bored and homesick despite efforts to amuse them with movies, beer gardens, barbecues. Women are also scarce. Total population of the island is only 55,000, more than half of whom are native Melanesians, with 8,000 Tonkinese and Javanese. But no military authorities would admit, nor could any U.S. observer report, any such generally immoral conditions as the Governor described...