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Beyond, in the open field, the bodies of some of the American gunners were being laid in rows beside the command tent. Farther on there were nine dead Japs in a ditch. One of them still clutched a stick with a bayonet tied to it. Nearby, beside a burning jeep, lay the body of a lieutenant. Corporal Anthony Kouma told us he had begged to be shot because he was so badly wounded. Kouma had said: "You'll be all right, sir," but the officer had died within a few minutes...
...State's Attorney and the chief of State Police asked the questions which were on thousands of other lips. How did the fire start? Eyewitnesses swore the blaze first smouldered at the bottom of the tent near a canvas section raised as a men's restroom. Why did the tent burn with that celluloid fierceness? Circus men said the 19-ton big top had been sprayed with a waterproofing solution last April. It had not been inspected before the show by the Hartford fire marshal...
Five officials and employes of the circus were arrested on technical charges of manslaughter and released on heavy bond. Warrants were issued for four more. Nobody seemed to know what would happen to the circus. All of its performers, roustabouts and animals had escaped unscathed, and it had another tent stored at winter headquarters at Sarasota...
...field soldier, General "Ike" slept in a tent with a cot and bedroll. Most of the time he was in danger areas; twice German barrages fell in districts he had just left. Once a flak tower from which he had been observing U.S. artillery fire took hits from 88-mm. guns just after he had climbed down...
Pyle sat through the interview in a daze, went back to his tent and brooded for hours. Finally he cabled his New York office that he could not write the Darlan story. Instead he wrote about the stranger who had died in the ditch beside him. For days he talked of giving up and going home. But when the shock wore off, he knew for sure that his job was not with the generals and their strategems but with the little onetime drugstore cowboys, clerks and mechanics who had no one else to tell their stories...