Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...withdrawals, it was possible that they might marshal reserves at some line of their choosing-perhaps along the Dnieper-and counterstrike at the then extended Russians. Since the Russians had again done their best work in their worst winter weather, and since the thaws of southern Russia produce a mud which is beyond description, the Germans probably look forward to a slackening of Russian momentum in a month or six weeks...
...sight of two Army lieutenants on their hands and knees paiustakingly "making mud-pies" seems a far cry from war training, but it's a deadly serious business to the 28 Army Engineers now Building behind the Law School...
...mud-splashed, helmeted students were picked officers and men from Lieut. General Ben ("Yoo-Hoo") Lear's Second Army. For two weeks they had puffed, sweated and bled through a nerve-racking training course as much like real battle as live bullets and dynamite could make it. They had absorbed a good half of the shocks that unsettle even well-trained soldiers in their first few days of actual battle: racket and din of their own weapons, the heart-stopping confusion of a stream-crossing under fire, the never-ending struggle with barbed wire and booby traps...
Small dynamite land mines, exploded by instructors, showered the crawling soldiers with geysers of mud. Two-thirds of the way across they ran into a barbed-wire obstruction, had to roll over the first strand, inch along on their backsides under the rest. With red-hot bullets above them, they wasted no time...
...fifth portable is established on an abandoned battlefield which has not yet been cleaned up because rain and mud makes it impossible to burn the place over or carry anything away. Jap corpses still inhabit the pillboxes (which the Australian tanks crushed), and sometimes the rain washes them into view. Humorous, bird-like Surgeon John Lambert of the fifth portable had a dream the other night: he found a Japanese map showing the whole Buna area under water, and he remembers saying, "Gee, the Japs make much better maps than...