Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WEASEL IS BUILT AROUND A HULL. . . . IT TRAVELS THROUGH DEEP MUD, SNOW, SAND, ... UP & DOWN STEEP RIVER BANKS AND THROUGH DEEP WATER. LET'S GIVE THE JEEP THE CREDIT IT WELL DESERVES BUT THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BUILD THE WEASEL ARE JUSTIFIABLY JEALOUS OF THE SINGULAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THEIR OWN BABY...
Sicily, the mud of Italy, the fire of Omaha Beach, the anxiety of the Bulge, and the triumph of the Rhine behind him-he started for home...
Supplies, Engineers, Fighters. His answer was in the endless columns of U.S. supply trucks, jeeps, tanks, artillery and bulldozers rumbling down from Balete Pass through dust and mud. It was in the roads punched out of mountain sides while the battles went on, in the bridges built, the airstrips rolled, the lumber cut, the dirt hauled by the engineers. He would also find it in the muddy, lined, unshaven faces of the infantrymen, seasoned fighters who beat mountains, jungles and rain as well as Japanese. What the Americans had better than Bushido was fighting heart and unmatched ability to fight...
...satellite, Muara Island. They went in standing up and quickly took the hamlet of Brooketon, where tun-bellied Major General George Frederick Wootten, 250-lb. division commander, set up headquarters. Then they moved into Brunei town-a dismal conglomeration of dilapidated native shacks built on stilts over mud flats. Natives call it Daru'l Salam-Abode of Peace-and it showed little fight...
Standing knee-deep in the winter's mud, they repaired what could be repaired in a few days. What could not be repaired in 72 hours, they shipped back to great base shops in Belgium and France-the chief of all in Paris. What was smashed completely they cannibalized, stripping it for its spare parts, leaving only piles of twisted junk for salvage as scrap...