Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Months of existence in a literal hell of mud, ice and fog have taught U.S. fighting men much about the Aleutians. Many of their lessons have been bitter. But they had the satisfaction last week of knowing that the Japs they are fighting are faring even worse. Jap-held Kiska had been plastered by more than a million high explosive and incendiary bombs during April. Jap raids on American positions were infrequent, of little consequence...
...painful trench foot of World War I has reappeared in the present comparatively trenchless war. In World War I, soldiers got trench foot from sitting for hours with their feet in mud or cold water. The result was something like severe chilblains, something like a burn: circulation slowed; feet became numb, swollen and white; sudden warming sometimes brought blisters and ulcers. The worst cases got gangrene, which meant amputation. Today's trench foot has different sources...
...Grenades seemed to be exploding everywhere. Machine-gun fire was deadly. It was raining heavily and all over the place bombs were bursting in the rain. We slipped and rolled in the mud. Some of our lads did terrific work with the machetes they had used to cut through the cactus hedges. They lopped down dozens of the enemy. Then we would dive on them and crash to the ground, arms locked, trying to find their throats or get our knives working...
Over the caked mud of the Kuban region and on thaw-softened battlefields stretching northward for 1,500 miles, the Wehrmacht and the Red Army prepared for the summer struggles...
...mud-walled headquarters on the South China front, Major General Claire Lee Chennault last week gave a succinct review of Japanese air power...