Word: yugoslavic
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Driving up through the incredibly beautiful mountain country toward Caporetto, we passed many small Yugoslav convoys moving north. They were travelling in groups of 50 or 60, some on foot, some in long, horse-drawn wagons. The Partisans looked at us with dull, tired eyes. One of these groups had four 37-mm. antitank guns-the only artillery I saw on the whole trip...
Along the Isonzo, every cluster of peasant houses sported a half-dozen flags, both Italian and Yugoslav. The flags were made of silk from parachutes we had used to drop food and supplies to the Partisans when they were fighting the Germans. On every building there were red stars and signs reading: "Tukaj je Jugoslavia" (This is Yugoslavia) and "Zivjo Tito" (Long live Tito...
Even the smallest bridge or road junction was guarded simultaneously by Yugoslavs and Gurkhas, Yanks or New Zealanders. The Yugoslav command had a lot to learn about Yanks. Yugoslav girl troops often stood guard at one end of a bridge, Yanks at the other. The girls did not stay on their own side very long-gum, candy, and wristwatches were fascinating...
...Children. Trieste harbor is lovely and undamaged. The Kiwis (New Zealanders) park their tanks and trucks on the waterside, and enjoy the surf with Italian girls. In the town itself the streets are patrolled night & day by armed squads of Yugoslavs carrying machine guns and tripods, knives, pistols and clusters of grenades. Most of them are very young; some are only ten or twelve years old. Their tattered uniforms include British battle dress, captured German and Italian hand-me-downs. When not patrolling, most of them ramble around Trieste's downtown districts with their dirty-haired Yugoslav girls...
...Partisan performance of Rigoletto, British and Yugoslav soldiers sat next to each other with Tommy guns resting on their knees. (At a banquet in celebration of Tito's 53rd birthday, British General Sir John Harding, U.S. General William Livesay, and other Allied officers dined & drank with their Partisan "enemies...