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Everything about a hospital ship is intended to make the wounded man forget about mud and foxholes, the blackout and the whine of artillery shells. Most soldiers, when asked about their main impression of battle, would probably name the dirt and filth. That is one reason why every effort is made aboard the Solace and her sister ships to keep everything white...
...they had, made a desperate attack on Stilwell's road block. They breached it, were thrown back in desperate fighting beyond. Then Stilwell's Chinese took the offensive, drove the Japs from their dugouts by the river bank. In the jungles, ringing with the earsplitting metallic whine of cicadas, the fighting went on for over ten days...
...They man Navy guns and they shoot Army rifles. But the toughest job in any military operation lies in that half-&-half area between the troop transport and the dry land of the defended enemy beach. Said a Marine sergeant who waded into Tarawa through the soprano whine...
...paces away or a stream of bullets parted the leaves overhead. About noon word was passed to prepare for a bombing attack. We dived for cover and I found myself waist-deep in water in a swampy pit. Whenever we took cover Jap snipers popped out and bullets would whine through our entire area. About three o'clock there was an especially sharp burst, and a visiting correspondent who had landed late and could not understand why we were nervous beat us to the bottom of our foxhole. When the firing finally died away he remarked ruefully, 'Through...
...pressure squeezed down on the hull, feeling cunningly for some weakness. . . . Loud noises issued from the metal. . . . The startled eyes of the men watched a four-inch solid pillar start to bend as the weight of the sea pressed down on the hull. One of the motors began to whine eerily. . . . For ten minutes the hydrophone operator heard the sound of ships near by, then the sounds faded, and the Clyde moved up to a safer depth and stole...