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...Europe, or is crossed by great bands of black, red, and grey. Moist surfaces-such as sweat patches on a horse or the wet concrete of a swimming pool at an irrigation settlement-are a weird glowing purplish color. The sun is entirely obscured, or shows like a wan full moon. Dead trees, a tragic number, loom through the hot murk in a variety of fantastic shapes as though they died in agony. . . . Where the dust clears a little, a few dead sheep may be seen. But not many; the drifting sand has buried an uncounted number where they fell...
...Feichi ch'a wan liao" ("The airplanes have finished bombing") an officer reports to the Chinese general. The general orders a ten-minute wait, hoping the Japs will poke their heads out of their dugouts to look for our infantry...
...male dancer, came out blowing a harmonica, and paced a group of women in gingham wrappers. Then out came some children who piped a Japanese love song in a tune that sounded like You Are My Sunshine. Their leader, a buxom girl, started her songs by chanting, 'Wan, two, left, right,' as a great compliment to the Americans...
When they cut the roads to the north and south, the Germans pulled out to the west, leaving snipers and machine-gunners to be mopped up. Most of the people seemed too dazed by Allied fire to greet the liberators with more than a wave and a wan smile. On a street still under German shellfire, a man carved himself a steak from a dead horse...
...Passes. The two passes at whose entrances the Russians stood - the Jablonica and Tartar Passes southwestward into Czechoslovakia - are not so rugged and impregnable as some of the territory around Cassino, for example. The passes rise only to about 3,000 ft., above wan dering valleys. The mountains are rolling rather than precipitous...