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...pure cussedness none of them had ever seen anything like the job they had to do. The Army was everywhere, from Fort Dix to Chungking, from Reykjavik to Port Darwin. Country boys in khaki, with the hayseed barely combed out of their hair, soldiered at Khorram Shar within hiking distance of the muddy confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Officers who had never been off the pavements set up camps on atolls in the Pacific or led men through the drifting fogs of the Aleutians to new homes that must be built. In the miasmas of Surinam...
...swirl of dust to take the air. One, a little too close, was caught in the slipstream of a ship ahead. It went out of control, screamed off the runway, ripped the motors off a parked plane, bounced off a jeep and crashed beyond in a group of khaki-clad men. The injured pilot was carried off the field crying "See what I did, see what...
...plane, shimmering in the violent sun, circled the wastes around the airdrome, glided home and touched the earth of India. U.S. mechanics swarmed to their tasks. U.S. officers, brown in khaki tropicals, made a respectful knot a little way from the plane door, waiting. Out stepped their commander, the commander of all U.S. Air Forces in India: Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton...
Despite its shallow quality, this khaki serial may well explain many perplexing army matters to womenfolk who are worried about their men in the armed forces...
...battleship Alabama slid off the ways at the Norfolk Navy Yard, she had become known as "the rhythm ship'' because her welders, riveters and fitters were spurred on by recorded music ranging from symphonies to boogie-woogie. In Botany Worsted Mills' vast Passaic, N.J. plant (khaki for uniforms), light melodies rise above the din of weaving machines and shuttles for periods of five to 25 minutes, six times...