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...were [close] to where showers of molten lava were falling. ... As we scrambled up, one shower dropped a few pieces within a yard or two of us. ... It seemed a little like walking between rain drops, but the top was too temptingly close and we scrambled ahead. ... It took all our resolution not to run back...
...Drapery, upholstery fabrics (simulating velvet, plush, mohair), shower curtains, slip covers, window screens...
...usual in war, there is much improvised equipment: sterilizers made from potato cans, shower baths made from gasoline drums, hinges from shell cases, an icebox from a Coca-Cola vending machine, can openers from any old thing (though 90% of field rations come in cans, the hospital set out without a single can opener). The Evac's most elaborate contrivance is a "Hawley table," a device for holding a man's body suspended for the application of big casts, which some men from the Air Corps Ordnance Department made from spare parts...
...show started off with some fine group singing led by Ernie Wills at the pianoforte. Many of the old favorties were rearranged by the various harmonizing quartets who frequent the shower rooms from Weld to Holworthy...
After that effort, the men go above to make their compartments shipshape, swab the decks, and shower. Then down to breakfast, at which musters have been taken since the Medical Department got worried over the number of absentees...