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Gradually the terrible sandstorm died last week. Life showed itself again on the Western Desert: herds of gazelles, swallows hurrying nowhere, vipers with lessons in camouflage, strange dry sand snails-and fighting...
...British had, besides, sent troops and planes to Iraq. In three weeks of sand-lot holy warfare, they had crushed the Air Force and just about crushed the land forces of the pro-Axis Premier-by-Revolt Rashid Ali El-Gailani. Last week the British reinforced their garrison in Iraq by sending units of the Fleet Air Arm to the top of the Persian Gulf...
...Carolina and nearby States is pocked with countless craters. The natives call them "bays," perhaps be cause bay trees grow among the pine forests which often cover the swampy depressions, making them scarcely noticeable-they can be seen clearly only from the air. The craters are usually rimmed with sand, oval in shape, parallel and varying from a few hundred yards to three miles in longest diameter...
What a road home, like traveling over sand dunes, but we are on the way home. Arrive in camp in the evening singing: "We'll hang out our washing on the El Wakline." There's a brandy issue. Glorious mail, my stretcher has arrived and another parcel. Two gallons of water per man. Dig a hole, put my ground sheet in-makes a perfect bath and lie flat on my back in the water reading my post-of such is the Kingdom of Heaven...
...British in Alexandria rested secure in the feeling that this time German logistical arrangements were vulnerable; that though they had come far, it was still lots farther to Alexandria and Suez; that the Germans had not had time to adjust themselves to desert dysentery, sand blindness, and the strange desert infection which keeps even scratches open. But from Vichy they heard that the Germans had spent weeks baking themselves in huge, sand-floored, sunlamp-lit ovens at temperatures well over 100°, to fit themselves for desert fighting...