Word: mens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...numerous, but Hill 660 was steep and slippery and it rained all the time. "The wells of fountain pens clogged; pencils came apart at the seams in less than a week, blades of pocket knives rusted together," McMillan remembers. Shellfire caused giant, rotten trees to tremble and fall; 25 men died as victims of such odd accidents of jungle fighting...
...Gloucester was not as bad as the next "rest camp," Pavuvu, and neither-in some ways-was Peleliu, where the division again caught the full fury of war in the Pacific. Pavuvu is a stinking, rat-infested little island in the Solomons, fit neither for marine nor Gook. Some men went "Asiatic" (regular Marine lingo for rock-happy). A sentry walked his muddy post for four hours, stopped at the last tent as his relief reported, put his rifle to his mouth and blew the top of his head off. This seemed so reasonably symptomatic of the division...
...screen brought cries of "Back it up!" Then the operator would oblige by rewinding it and showing the female again. When any heroine displayed signs of falling in love the audience implored: "Don't run off with that bum! Wait till I get home!" One night, men of Headquarters Battalion got so mad at Charles Boyer they threw coral rocks at the screen...
...Unlike men of many other U.S. outfits from Manila to Berlin, the marines took the peace in their stride: no mass meetings, no whimperings to be sent home. Proud Author McMillan tells what made "the old breed" different: "The men of the 1st Marine Division stood steady at their tasks, welded together in what seemed then a dignified silence by the same pervasive sense of discipline and of duty that had been the division's most evident characteristic...
...Search. In New Haven, Conn., young Vito Manga, chased by police to the roof of a nurses' dormitory, explained how he had happened to be lurking on the fire escapes outside the building: he "was looking for a men's room...