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...great variety of livestock available; whatever the reason, the British Fourteenth Army in Burma was the world's best at collecting pets. It was a tradition. The late Major General Orde C. Wingate had taken a cow buffalo along on his raids, once restored its health with precious brandy. Brigadier "Mad Mike" Calvert's favorite was an elephant named Flossie. In Arakan an officer keeps a bear...
...metals, they weaken airplane connecting rods by making deep stencils of serial numbers in them). But the Japs have not had to be careful. They have enough copper to make their cartridge cases of brass, have been lavish in the use of nickel, zinc, manganese, aluminum and other precious alloys...
...conquest was to destroy free men's ideas by destroying their books. In 1938, while the Nazis were systematically looting some 400 libraries in Czechoslovakia, the Japs deliberately dropped 50 bombs on China's National Hunan University in Changsha. The National Tsinghua University at Peiping lost many precious books and manuscripts, some irreplaceable...
...anything which most wives and sweethearts want is assurance that their waiting, their nightly letter writing, their valiant dreaming will not be in vain. The precious years are rushing past. Said the women...
...misery goes on & on. Two weeks after the 1st Cavalry raced into Santo Tomás, it shudders almost constantly under the convulsive roaring of our Long Toms [155-mm. rifles] shelling the Japs inside Manila and close on its outskirts. Liberation has cost a price which only so precious a thing as freedom could justify, yet I have found no Filipino unwilling...