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...embarkation was a nightmare of hurry and numbers and weariness. The train had marked the real departure, the breaking of the cord, the physical moving off of the visible men. The ship lay quiet, a stolid appendage to the pier. Even when she moved into the stream, she moved as a ship, an iron entity anonymous and impersonal. The men hardly knew they were leaving...
...first time are amazed at the decent public treatment accorded them. As they go farther from the camp and the West Coast, their fears vanish, and the heartaches of the past year and a half seem almost like dreams. The transition back into America's life-stream is neither painful nor difficult...
...shaking at the wrong time, went on shaking till it short-circuited, burned the house down. In Dandridge, Tenn., lightning struck Hugh Hunter's cow barn, set it afire, traveled along a pipe to a water tank on a nearby hill, ripped the tank open, let out a stream of water that ran down the hill and put out the fire...
Next to a mountain stream which runs down the steep slope were nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth...
...keeps that well-fed look on the faces of AST men at Leverett House is Philip Hurley, assistant to Chief Steward Carl T. Tucker. Hurley juggles ration points in huge quantities and keeps a steady stream of miracles flowing from the kitchen...