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...Nobody gave a damn whether an inmate in Buchenwald lived or died. The SS men, if they felt like it-if they just felt like it-would kill men as they wouldn't kill an animal, they would snuff out his life as they might that of an insect which they happened to see on the road...
Such examples of plain commonsense and good storytelling may be credited in part to the script (by Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...
Unrelated to the rodent family and far from mouselike in its habits, the shrew is properly an insect eater. But, declared Eadie, the shrew rarely behaves properly: in 56% of shrews' nests he examined there was direct evidence that the occupants had been feeding largely on field mice. "Circumstantial evidence," he added darkly, "points to a higher figure." Field mouse population of meadows near the experiment dropped from 80 to twelve mice per acre...
...only prevention is to cut down or burn off the kunai grass and wear tick-tight clothing smeared with insect repellent. The only treatment is good nursing care which, in one epidemic, cut deaths to 2%. In the same issue of the Bulletin, Captain Joseph Bruce Logue reported on an epidemic of 230 cases with 22 deaths. In his opinion, none of these tsutsugamushi patients were fit to stay in the combat zone, even after several weeks of light duty. He suspects that all have permanent heart damage...
...Father Wasmann eventually gathered specimens of most of the 3,500 known species of ants. When he died in 1931, he left the collection to another Jesuit entomologist, Father Schmitz, who added to it his own great collection of phorid flies (a species of hunchbacked insect...