Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paced by tanks, 38th Division infantrymen were storming a narrow gorge, its 500-ft. walls honeycombed with Japanese caves, leading to Wawa Dam east of Manila. The tanks stalled in the bouldered terrain. So they called up lanky Charles R. Oliver Jr., who a year ago was a Wortham, Tex. high-school student, gave him a bazooka and appointed him spearhead...
...made a jump. Senior officer aboard was 43-year-old Colonel Lewis Baker Cuyler, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel and Operations of the Army Air Forces. Lost, groping in & out of an overcast, running out of gas and with no chance of making a landing in the mountainous terrain, the five realized that there was only one way out. "Buzz" Cuyler, father of four, able businessman turned able soldier, found out what it was like...
...Stout Castle. The broken, ugly terrain-reddish clay, volcanic ash, coral outcroppings-was the kind the burrowing Japs like. Among the ridges, spurs, knobs and gullies were innumerable caves and underground passages, to which the Japs added their own dugouts and pillboxes. In one tunnel they had laid narrow-gauge rails to move artillery. They moved into the stone tombs in which Ryukyu Islanders bury their dead, and reinforced them with concrete...
...Pietro's record of combat, its eye for terrain and for weather, its recognition of war as a science both wonderful and tragically inexact, are at least equal to any seen in films so far. But its great distinction is its constant, bitter, admiring, pitying awareness of human beings...
...General itemized his indictment. Tires and wheels have been stolen from P-51 Mustangs. Bomb parts have been stolen, making the bombs duds. Emergency jungle kits in parachutes (containing jungle knives, rations, matches, etc.) have been looted, probably resulting in death to flyers downed over jungle terrain. Ammunition, weapons, gasoline and vehicles are stolen everywhere...