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...TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder, shivering in a slit trench, as he watched the infantry go forward, reported:" They stood up, held their guns easily, moved out of their trenches fanning out slightly so that the line was almost dead perfect in the moonlight as far as I could see. When they moved a bright green flare went up and dripped down behind, then two more and then another, and in that eerie light all you could see were soldiers shuffling toward the enemy. . . . There was little left in doubt except the speed with which Tripoli would be reached...
...trainees last week showed their battle learning while newsmen crouched in a watery trench as machine-gun bullets cracked two feet above their heads. Two platoons crawled out of another trench 100 yards away, started slithering across the muddy ground under that gunfire. They had to keep arms and legs low-or else...
REMIND US IN DUE TIME TO ERECT A STATUE OF VICTORY IN TOULON HARBOR IN MEMORY OF THOSE IMMORTAL TRENCH PATRIOTS...
Later Jimmy demanded and got more modern equipment and pictures through Australia. Grateful Australian airmen built him a hut, rebuilt it when a 500-lb. bomb took it apart (Jimmy was staying, at the moment, in a nearby slit trench named Pooh-Bah Palace). Australians and Americans have also built a chain of eight theaters which extend from Port Moresby to Milne Bay and deep into the jungle. The seats are smoothed logs nailed to stumps. The theater's acoustic walls are the jungle, which adds its own soundeffects and out of which appear like moths...
...threadbare blanket with a hole cut in the middle served him as a poncho. The Red Army men, dressed in the standard winter sheepskin shubas (coats), fleece-lined caps and warm valenki (knee-high felt boots), seized the shivering Fritz as he stood sentry duty over a zigzag trench full of freezing Germans. All he could mumble was "holodno" (cold...