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Politics, Guns, Law and TechSunday, February 02, 2003
Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe Numbers 3 and 4
"Tell th' old man I'm sittin' up wit' two sick friends."
"Joe, yestiddy ya saved my life an' I swore I'd pay ya back. Here's my last pair of dry socks."
Of course, infrantrymen live on their feet. Keeping their feet warm and dry is a recurring theme from infrantymen of all wars, and it was no less true in World War II. Hard statistics are difficult to come by, but trenchfoot was certainly one of the leading causes of casualties on both sides. Men would sit immobile in foxholes for forty-eight hours (or more), cold and wet. When it finally came time to move, they couldn't. Previous Willie and Joe
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