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Show Life in Burma Is Tough, Yanks Find Discovery of One Fat Pig Is Important Event. WITH THE CHINESE EXPEDITIONARY EXPEDI-TIONARY FORCE. Eating and sleeping with their Chinese allies in the Salween river . off ensive, American Ameri-can liaison teams under the command com-mand of Brig. Gen. Frank Dorn live on rice, wild pig and pack horses, and lead perhaps the most rugged campaign life of any United States army unit in action anywhere in the world. On some sectors of the front they live on red rice and half of a small can of "C" ration per man daily. With the Chinese, the Americans forage for-age through deserted villages of the mountain front for anything green that can be eaten. Pack horses that die beside the trail are skinned and divided up immediately. Many of the wild pigs left to roam by fleeing natives are shot and boiled. There isn't enough fat on the hogs to fry them in. Lieut. CoL Oscar R. Dips, Free-port, Free-port, 111., who has been helping the Chinese direct air support on the mountains, told of a day when the Americans finally found a fat pig. "Some of the American boys on my radio team found a pig that was well filled out the way pigs should be in the corner of a mountain compound. com-pound. "We were all sitting around the fire, soaked and hungry, when one of the boys brought the squealing pig in. The sight of our guns and drawn knives as we jumped up must have been too much for him. He broke away and scampered down the mountain. There wasn't any chance of catching him. "That night some strong men broke down and nearly cried. "The next day the boys spotted that porker again and shot him on the run." Dips said the Chinese general he was assigned to had given him a saddle horse, but he couldn't ride him. "The horse's legs were too short, or mine were too long I don't know which. Anyway, I couldn't ride him. I would have him walk up the trails, and I would walk behind him hanging hang-ing on to the horse's tail." |