Word: khorram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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