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...minutes later he crawled over to a slit-trench phone, talked to a regimental commander. "Of course, your battalion commander knows more about the situation than I do," he said smoothly. "But maybe we ought to get in there fast and exploit this barrage." Back at the outpost, he commented: "We're going to attack in half an hour." But he did not wait. He was off to other forward units, riding with one long leg astride a fender of his jeep...
...farthest outpost in China. I can damn near spit on the Japs from here. . . . I started to teach a little Chinese kid English yesterday. You remember how mad Daddy would get when I couldn't get something through my head? I do the same with the kid but he only looks at me and smiles! That's the Chinese for you. . . . It will be some time before I get home. Not this Xmas, I'm sure. I got a lot of work to do here. . . . There are lots of these damn Japs . . . and close...
...from his strategic air and naval base at Rabaul, apex of a triangle, the Jap looked down anxiously on Munda. Its coral airfield had been repaired and was in operation as a fighter base. It was being used already against Rabaul's outpost, Bougainville, which the U.S. might conceivably by-pass as it had Kolombangara...
Building the Road. Until the war came, Seagrave's worst worry was malaria. Nearly as worrisome were the narrow, precipice-hugging, sandy or muddy roads, which hampered his movements when he wanted to visit an outpost clinic. He was glad to see the building of the Burma Road, but that was heartbreaking too. "Even on that short stretch of road there must have been 10,000 coolies at work. The hillsides were black with them: Chinese, Shans, Kachins. Huge goiters hampered their work. Dozens were lying by the road shaking with fever. In the rockiest parts coolies were tediously...
...back. The nurses learned to dive for slit trenches. The weather got hot. Food ran short and was often so poor that Grindlay could not digest it. It began to be time to abandon Burma altogether. Dr. Seagrave began to try to gather up all his people from the outpost hospitals and his old home at Namkham. He corralled nearly all of them. Most of the nurses elected to go along with him to India...