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...reef-guarded Gilberts. Other landing craft were halted by the coral rings around the islands. The Alligators (originally developed by Donald Roebling for hurricane rescue work in Florida swamps) kept going, climbed over the barriers, crawled up on the beaches, ranged inland. Their tanklike, clanking steel treads worked wet...
...tattered flag, that the wind had faded until you could hardly tell what it was. Parts of it had been beaten off by the strong mountain wind and had caught on the huckleberry vines. 'Oh, my Kim,' Aunt Vittie screamed. . . . Tears ran down her cheeks and wet the flag in two tiny places. I'd never noticed before that Aunt Vittie was so pretty...
...very unseamanlike pose-holding on to keep his balance. He was aboard a battleship, which rolls slowly, and this one was in a harbor. I'm afraid our ubiquitous Secretary would need both hands and then some to stay erect on my little ship which "will pitch on wet grass...
...alone-the only means now available -such a force could be maintained only by prodigious effort and a bigger fleet of transports than China has yet seen. Even if Burma is reopened, the Burma Road's previous top capacity of 15,000 tons a month would hardly wet the bucket. That is why Chennault dreams of a seaport near his operational bases...
Against the Elements. A cold, dismal rain drips steadily on American infantrymen slogging through the mud. Snow caps the high hills. On roadsides, in vineyards and olive groves of "sunny Italy," troops snatch much-needed rest. Punch-drunk with weariness, shoulders hunched against the chill wetness, they sit with their feet in the gumbo. Hot coffee is a Waldorf luxury. Wood is too wet to burn. When some anonymous genius discovered that the two wrappings around the K rations would burn just long enough to heat a canteen-cup of coffee, he won the soldiers' undying gratitude...