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There were more & more patients. The hospital moved back & 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...
...first an American, then a Southerner, and as I lie in my slit-trench during a break in maneuvers, my blood boils with rage at reading radical, damyankee Dr. Conant's wish for "setting up Federally financed but State-operated machinery for retraining the veterans and placing them in jobs, etc." [TIME, May 31). This Government control of so-called "freedom" is what I, and, I assure you, many like me are fighting against...
...Guettar, reading a magazine when the shelling got heavy by day and at night lying there waiting to know if his number was coming up. To Corporal Isaac Lorenzo Moroni Parker it was the sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private First Class Michael Scotto di Clementi it was digging a slit trench beside the colonel's tent in an oasis and wondering if anybody remembered Micky Scott of Our Gang comedies. To Major General Terry Allen it was a satisfying pride in his 1st Division and an occasional chance to talk polo with a British major over...
...guns, his armor, and his Italians. Before each stick of bombs hit the earth, new sticks, and after them still other sticks, left the bomb bays. The bombardment lasted two and a half hours. Artillery chimed in toward the end, and when the bayonets finally slit forward, there was nothing left that could be called resistance...
...shell rang above us, the battalion commander climbed down into a slit trench and, with a flashlight held over a map, began to explain the situation to his company commanders...