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...asking for any kindly old man when, in February 1943, he requested the War Department to send Krueger to Australia to head the Sixth Army. Headquarters in a Brisbane hotel was too plush for Krueger: he moved to a camp 16 miles out of town and lived in a hut. Later he was to live in many a hut, from Milne Bay to Good-enough Island, New Britain, Hollandia and Leyte...
...hut at a U.S. Air Transport Command station near London this week, Private Ramon Rodriguez slept all alone. It was the only way the Army could be sure that the rest of the base personnel would get any sleep. Rodriguez snores to wake the dead...
...drafty and the Holland cold bit deep in Hut 2-B. The two frail old ladies from Germany-Internees No. 00001989 and No. 00001990-huddled in their double bed, shivered as they peered through a windowpane at the internment camp where 6,000 German civilians were held...
...Want to Stay." Last week in Hut 2-B, the two old ladies, still abed, received American visitors, TIME Correspondent William W. Johnson and LIFE Photographer George Silk. They told their story-Victoria in perfect American, Grace with a slight accent. Would they pose for a picture? They fussed and primped, tied ribbons in their white hair, prettied their shawls, tidied their pillows, smoothed the bedcover. Flashlight bulbs popped. They blinked and giggled...
They looked so cold-were they comfortable? Nun ja, it was not nice. Too much noise in the hut. And the soup was too thin. But surely the camp authorities would arrange better quarters...