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...point of emaciation, but his body is hard, and his jet-black eyes, set in a hawklike, bronzed face, burn with the fierceness that is characteristic of all the Cretan guerrillas. Batouvas cannot be more than 5 ft. 6, and he walks like a spraddled duck. His khaki shorts are too big for him, flapping in the mountain winds, and his khaki shirt emerges at several places from his pants. He is nobody's ideal of a hero. In fact, before the Germans invaded Crete, Batouvas was a quiet, easygoing merchant in a Cretan town...
...troops closing in on Munda had learned much since Bataan; these troops were fighting a new kind of warfare. Once they wore khaki and blue dungarees; now they were clad in mottled yellow-brown-green coveralls that blended with the deep color and shadow of the tropics. Once they had little else to fight with but machine guns, rifles and knives; now they had ample artillery and support from sea and air. Once they massed and deployed awkwardly in textbook tactics; now they crept silently through the jungle. At Viru Harbor, U.S. Marines, infiltrating from the rear, wiped...
...nobody would try to say that the war hasn't revolutionized Harvard. Anyone can see the difference between khaki and striped seersucker. Also, few would deny that the College had a good-sized quota of "scions of wealthy aristocrats...
...Those khaki shorts worn by WARREN BARTHG must have been made for a midget and if you knew the size of WARREN you'd wonder how he ever got into them and much less bend over . . . I thought I'd spilt when he did the jumping Jack routine. . . he almost...
...best experiences I've had in the army," he declares... Seigle has been in khaki more than two year, since April 2, 1941... During his first month he spent much of his time breaking up an abandoned macadam road down in Ft. Eustis, Va... "I don't know what the army did with the pieces of that road," he smiles, "but I learned how to swing a pick...