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...Berlin radio attributed his death to an "airplane accident on Monday, the eleventh," said he died en route to a hospital. Reports from Vichy said he was a suicide. Many a U.S. airman and war veteran could recall Ernst Udet as a stumpy, laughing, likeable little man with a thirst for beer and information, a man of many questions who carefully avoided questioners. The last photograph of him alive, as approved by the censor, showed a bald, grim, tight-lipped man looking considerably older than his 45 years...
...desert some of our British armored-car men were lost and dying of thirst and starvation. . . . They were in terribly bad condition. Balbo, who was of impulsive and generous nature, heard of their plight and got into a bombing plane, took an escort of two fighters and personally flew to the rescue of these British soldiers. Having picked them up, he flew the troops to an Italian hospital, then started back to Tobruk; his head quarters...
...remember, I went in with other war correspondents and war photographers before the entry of the British troops. There I distributed them around to some of the American missionaries and other Americans still left in the city who leaped upon them like people dying of mental starvation and thirst...
...disease is hereditary. Plain overeating does not bring it on unless the glands are frail to begin with. Most people who develop diabetes are overweight, but when the disease begins, they lose weight, develop a voracious appetite, a quenchless thirst. In the advanced stages, the blood is heavily laden with sugar, pus germs flourish, fat metabolism goes awry, and a victim's body is flooded with poisonous waste products...
Riding in his command car Louisiana-bound with his division (45th) for war games, Major Sandy Goodman acquired a consuming thirst from Texas' boiling sun and dusty highways. He didn't mind saying so into his radio transmitter. Major General George V. Strong, 8th Corps commander, inspecting the march from an airplane, overheard, ordered his pilot to land. They picked up a carton of iced bottled drinks at a roadside stand, flew back to the line of march and dropped the carton by parachute close to the parched Major...