Word: hut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wasp. The Enterprise was at Pearl Harbor, recovering from a year's accumulation of battle wounds. There was only one U.S. carrier fit for actioa in the Pacific, the old Saratoga. Marc Mitscher, now a rear admiral, was sweating in open-necked khakis in a Dallas hut by the Lunga River on Guadalcanal, commanding land-based aircraft in the Solomons...
Allied correspondents have never forgotten their first view of Paulus at reconquered Stalingrad: a tall, forbidding figure emerging from a hut, holding himself disdainful, starch-stiff and aloof from his Russian captors. At that time the Russians had half a mind to hang him: they had found one of his orders consigning Stalingrad's population to slave labor in Germany...
Allied correspondents have never forgotten their first view of Paulus at reconquered Stalingrad: a tall, forbidding figure emerging from a hut, holding himself disdainful, starch-stiff and aloof from his Russian captors. At that time the Russians had half a mind to hang him: they had found one of his orders consigning Stalingrad's population to slave labor in Germany...
...asking for any kindly old man when, in February 1943, he requested the War Department to send Krueger to Australia to head the Sixth Army. Headquarters in a Brisbane hotel was too plush for Krueger: he moved to a camp 16 miles out of town and lived in a hut. Later he was to live in many a hut, from Milne Bay to Good-enough Island, New Britain, Hollandia and Leyte...
...hut at a U.S. Air Transport Command station near London this week, Private Ramon Rodriguez slept all alone. It was the only way the Army could be sure that the rest of the base personnel would get any sleep. Rodriguez snores to wake the dead...