JUNGLE PATROLS
ARDUOUS CONDITIONS (O C ) BOUGAINVILLE, May 29. A patrol in the jungle is like four nights in a Turkish bath, without towels. An hour or two in the pocket of a soaked jungle suit and a pack of cigarettes looks like a shrivelled wheat biscuit someone left out in the .rain. For this reason artillery forward observer parties that accompany most infantry patrols have “ figured out ■” how to keep themselves supplied with “ smokes.” They radio their troubles to their observation planes that frequently hover overhead, and the pilots oblige with a shower of cigarettes. As near misses are not good enough, the cigarettes being easily lost, the flyers have to do some fairly accurate bombing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25562, 15 June 1944, Page 5
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