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...painful trench foot of World War I has reappeared in the present comparatively trenchless war. In World War I, soldiers got trench foot from sitting for hours with their feet in mud or cold water. The result was something like severe chilblains, something like a burn: circulation slowed; feet became numb, swollen and white; sudden warming sometimes brought blisters and ulcers. The worst cases got gangrene, which meant amputation. Today's trench foot has different sources...
...airman's form of trench foot was reported last week in the Washington Star: flyers may develop swollen, whitish hands or faces which take months to get well if they whip off masks or gloves for a few moments to make fine adjustments at high altitudes. The accident happens so often that many U.S. doctors in England have made it their chief research...
...shell rang above us, the battalion commander climbed down into a slit trench and, with a flashlight held over a map, began to explain the situation to his company commanders...
...North Africa the girls went up to the front lines to give their show. In steel helmets and trench coats, their faces caked with mud, they sometimes went a week without changing clothes. They ate in the soldiers' mess, watched the boys bid wads of francs for the privilege of escorting them to their tables. They performed in the rain, in halls lit only by torches; once, in a boxing ring. When they lacked a musician, a soldier rapped on a table to keep time for Mitzi's dance. Often under fire, the girls had to interrupt their...
...soldiers who hold them have changed. China's heroes are sick. For every man who lies on a reed pallet with battle wounds, ten lie ill of disease. For every man who tosses with dysentery, pneumonia or malaria in a hospital, four others suffer, unattended, in bivouac or trench. At the root of all this aching misery is a malnutrition so vast that no one dares try to cope with it. The fevers of China creep into bodies which exist day after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes of China have to draw their...