Word: tracklessly
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...were last to leave-fired the scout-cars, burned the official documents, finally lit out after the General with a tin of cheese and no water at all. He was with Uncle Joe's polyglot army of 400 all through the desperate 140-mile trek through the almost trackless jungle and over the head-hunter-infested mountains into India. He tended the wounded, chorused Christian hymns and American jazz with the Burmese nurses to keep up morale, escaped getting dysentery but lost so much weight the rings dropped from his fingers...
Record: Perfect. However tough the grind, airline pilots love this work. Long known as the cantankerous prima donnas of aviation, pilots formerly raised the hangar roof if a single field light was out or the stewardess forgot the chewing gum. Now they fly over trackless wastes (usually without radio), land on bad fields, sleep in flimsy shanties-and never squawk. And their record grounds everyone: not a single lost plane, not a single accident...
...chances of holding Port Darwin are poor, according to de Haas. "It is not a strong base to begin with, and it is separated from the industrial southern part of Australia by miles of trackless desert. Once Darwin is lost our only hope will be to defend southern Australia...
...present, tank destroyer outfits will have to use truck-drawn cannon and the few self-propelled artillery mounts now available. Later they are likely to have 3-in. cannon mounted on medium tank chassis. And already in production is a trackless tank (TIME...
...trackless tank rides on eight huge wheels, independently sprung so that each can crawl over stumps and gullies in its own way. Powered by a 250-h.p. Guiber-son Diesel engine, it has impressive speed -better than 80 m.p.h. on smooth highways-is fast and nimble over rough ground. It mounts two .50-caliber machine guns and a slim-nosed, long-barreled 75 in its flat turret...