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...Lubar a map on which numbers of regular Pakistan units were labeled in. Lubar asked what was the source of his information. "Partly from prisoners," he answered. "Also they drop over and see us sometimes. The Pakistan battalion commander here and the Indian battalion commander here are both former platoon commanders of mine...
...most delighted in the very things which he later renounced. A glimpse of the Czar, "sitting so handsomely on his horse," could make him feel "clogged with tears"; and " [life's] greatest happiness," he still believed then, "Iies in . . . riding on horseback by one's artillery platoon . . . lighting up a cigarette . . . and thinking, 'If they all only knew what a fine fellow...
Guests in Charge. Next day the fat of international friendship was in the fire. With more anger than accuracy, some newspapers charged that a platoon of U.S. paratroopers was maltreating Mexicans on Mexican soil. Mexican reporters said they had been menaced by "machine guns and large combat weapons." Powerful Excelsior said the newsmen had been mistreated "simply because they were Mexicans...
Nightmare in a Wonderland. In an atmosphere of uncomprehending misery, the platoon is ordered on a reconnaissance patrol on the far side of the island, over the vast peaks of the Watamai Mountains. It is in itself an incident in the war superior to most war fiction, the patrol through a wonderland of grass growing higher than the heads of the men, spiders, and endless spider webs, gnats, buzzing silence, rain and sunlight, golden sand and indigo trees-a nightmare in which one after another is killed. What deepens the irony is that the campaign is successful without the benefit...
...Author. Norman Mailer attended public schools in Brooklyn, at Harvard studied engineering, shortly after graduation married Beatrice Silverman (later a lieutenant in the WAVES). During the war he served in Leyte, Luzon and Japan, as a clerk, an aerial photograph expert, a rifleman in a reconnaissance platoon, a cook, a baker. Discharged in 1946, he wrote The Naked and the Dead in a year and a half...