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...wrote to his mother that of the many he had seen die, he had not seen or heard of one who met death with terror. He knew that he would treat wounded Southern soldiers as gently. The faces of the dead were transfigured. He stepped out of his tent one grey, dim daybreak, and walked in the cool fresh air to the hospital tent, uncovering the features of three of the dead - an elderly man, gaunt and grim, a young boy, and a third -Young man 7 think I know you - 7 think this face is the face...
...Fortnight ago, New Zealand-born Keith Palmer (Melbourne, Australia Herald and U.S. Newsweek) was killed and Associated Pressman Rembert James wounded when a Japanese bomb demolished a correspondents' tent on Bougainville Island. Palmer was the 15th British Empire reporter to be killed in World War II. U.S. deaths...
During the action in Sicily, General Patton visited an evacuation hospital. He was conducted to the receiving tent, where 15 casualties had just come in from the front...
...Breaks Me Down. . . ." Patton started to leave the tent, wheeled when he heard the man sobbing, ran back and hit him again. The medical commander was helpless. He accompanied Patton to another tent. The General asked more questions of wounded men. Then he broke into a sob: "I can't help it, but it breaks me down to see you brave boys...
...objects of contempt to the enemies of their country." In his camps in India he read constantly, kept on the move, ate frugally, drank little.* His officers, up at 4:30, drank a cup of tea before daylight, breakfasted in their overcoats on a table before Wellington's tent, and then set out on the day's march, the Duke riding on the dusty flank...