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Once in a while he emerged-unkempt but clear-eyed, a prospector's pack on his back, a notched pistol in the homemade holster on his hip-to stalk into town for grub. People left him severely alone: he had dropped a running rabbit at 100 yards with that pistol. They called him "King of the Gulch...
...toughest sort of going," said Patton in his room at head quarters. "A few men holding good positions are the hardest to lick. We can't kill many of them. They must have gotten their mortars in there with mules. I'd give anything for one good pack." On the third day the infantry commanders told General Patton they would be able to complete their assignments that day. General Patton ordered his armor forward. The infantry felt their urgency too strongly and pressed on too fast on the hillsides, not taking the very tops...
...overseas soldiers one of the minor mysteries of war has been the cigaret supply. In the Philippines men who had to eat carabao and mule meat could understand why their cigarets dwindled to a pack a week and finally disappeared. But U.S. troops in Australia whose supply has never been seriously impeded do not know yet why they smoked a low-selling brand like...
...Army Quartermaster Corps in Washington had no explanation to offer, released some statistics which only deepened the mystery: enough cigarets are being sent overseas to give every man on foreign service (more than one million this spring) a pack a day. The percentage distribution seemed to be normal: Lucky Strike 21, Camels 21, Chesterfields 18, Philip Morris 12, Old Gold 11, Raleigh 6, Twenty Grand 3½, Chelsea 3, all others 4½. Army Exchange Service, which with the quartermasters buys cigarets for overseas distribution, was surprised to hear about the cigaret-supply mystery, which had already gone 16 months...
...duties to work out a plan with Prime Minister Curtin allowing Aussies to buy cigarets in U.S. post exchanges. Result: long lines of Diggers at PX doors three times daily, a tighter supply for U.S. troops, and bitter words. Today the situation is smoother and U.S. soldiers get a pack...