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...Front, which is like a long letter home, sets forth some of Bill Mauldin's favorite gripes, which are the gripes of all infantrymen. Among them: revulsion at "spit & polish" in the field; envy of rear-echelon men who take over the towns after the infantrymen have captured them, occupy all the best spots and drink all the liquor; disdain for brass hats full of arrogance and stuffing...
...Fifth Avenue he wore a red waistcoat embroidered with headless bodies and bodiless heads. He built himself a magnificent bathroom, decorated it with a tile which showed Woollcott on the toilet seat. His language matched his man ners. He would say to a guest: "You faun's rear end, I hoped we'd seen the last of you," or "Here's our withered harpy back again." "Thank you, you mildewed sheeny," was his way of acknowledging help from Dorothy Parker...
From the grounded plane scrambled some 15 Japanese soldiers. Like a football team, they huddled around an officer who shouted orders. Then they scattered toward the parked U.S. fighter planes and bombers. Rear-area technicians (some of whom had never before seen a Japanese close) grabbed carbines and rifles, pitched in to fight a battle that lasted almost two hours. The Japs managed to burn a few U.S. planes, but by dawn the invaders were dead, some of them by their own grenades...
Growing Pearl. Pearl Harbor, which could not even be identified as the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet when those first new carriers returned from their strike at Marcus, is now freely advertised as the rear headquarters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' command. Pearl Harbor is still growing; the land area surrounding it is still being covered with new hundreds of acres of warehouses, shops and all the other impedimenta of a rear base...
...Troops were not frittered away, or abandoned. Crack armies were moved into the rear battle area ready to support the forces actually engaged...