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...requisitioned: 4,419,450 arm bands, 2,700,000 helmets, 5,000,000 gas masks, 100,000 firemen's coats, 72,000 12-to-14-qt. buckets, 2,258,000 fire extinguishers, 100,000 pairs of blue-denim pants, umpty-umpty-ump first-aid kits, nozzles, pumping units, stretcher litters, shovels, folding cots...
Then the mass moved toward the improvised canteen-all except the quietly smiling stretcher cases-for a spread of precious tea, coffee, hot milk, pies, buns, slab chocolate and 10,000 sandwiches that the women of Edinburgh and Leith had frantically put together the night before. Some noticed that the prisoners reached first for white bread and newspapers...
They sweated it out in mangrove swamps and jungles so thick that one force of Pioneers, unopposed, could make only four miles in two days. Enemy resistance was spasmodic but fierce. Japs, as before, had to be dug out of holes. Japs leaped from the dark tangled jungles on stretcher-bearers carrying wounded. As on Attu, Japanese hugged grenades, blew themselves and their attackers to bits...
...ambulance took me to a landing craft and, with several other wounded, I soon found myself alongside a ship. A hook descended over the boat and the sailors fastened lines around my stretcher and that of another man. When we came abreast of the rail, careful hands seized our stretchers and voices said: "Good work, soldier...
...prepared speech by Chief "Scotty" last week, relaying complaints from the dispensary of too much business via the basketball floor, seemingly failed to impress Company Charlie sufficiently. It took about 30 minutes by the clock until "Dit-dit-dit-da" Balmuth was carried off the floor in an improvised stretcher--sprained ankle...