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...their first sore sample of Pacific plowing on Efate, in the New Hebrides, where they planted their first seed. Thick virgin underbrush had to be uprooted, coral sand scraped away. But with the help of French prison labor, they were soon producing. Last Christmas the boys had 15,000 ears of sweet corn...
Step Three. "Somebody go get a four-block charge of TNT," said the marine sergeant, who hadn't put much faith in his linguist's coaxing ability in the first place. At this point an armored bulldozer, piloted by a young Seabee, rumbled through the underbrush. The sergeant explained the situation to him. The bulldozer man drove his blade into the earth and started to push dirt from the ground level into the quarry where it fell across the mouth of the cave...
...93rd learned fast. They were resourceful. Corporal Lemon Hicks of Silver City, Miss, and four buddies got lost behind enemy lines. When they blundered into a command post they picked off one Jap, melted back into the thick and steaming underbrush. They ran into a Jap minefield and methodically picked their way through it. They located their own lines by the sound of distant artillery, finally crossed safely back. Said Lemon: "All of us prayed...
Near dawn he reached the wood's edge, saw a German patrol. Surprised, he hid in the underbrush until the Nazis passed. Then, as the sun rose, he saw horror in the shallow valley sheltering the town. The town was Lidice, and Karl Horak saw it die (TIME, June 22-, 1942). Of Lidice's 1,200 human beings Horak, so far as he knew, was the only one who escaped the Nazis' savage reprisal after the killing of Gestapoman Reinhard Heydrich...
...Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides to collect his thoughts during a walk. Out of the bosky underbrush pops the Devil in the person of Captain Percy Nick (Per-Cynic). The Devil, Heaven's most unsuccessful politician, laughs at the Young Soldier for worrying about Politician Cripps and at all talk of a better world emerging from the war. "When the devil was sick," he misquotes Rabelais...