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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Radiology in World War II 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Office of the Surgeon General, Dept. of the Army : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1966
    ... ground to the north were a group of bamboo bashas where American patients and our nurses were [ ... Some of the floors were cov- ered with bamboo matting, and others were dirt. The roofs were ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - United States Army veterinary service in World War II 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Office of the Surgeon General, Dept. of the Army : For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961
    ... Burma, airstrip 556 60 U.S. Army airplanes with bamboo stall-like partitions 557 61 Capt. L. T. ... often located not too far from mess kitchens. Bamboo was the only material available for the construction ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Military government handbook : Kurile islands 
    Publication: Washington : Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1 November 1943
    ... INDUSTRY 321. Handicrafts. The manufacture of chopsticks and bamboo ob- jects are minor handicrafts. 35 *322. Textile ... islands there is a dense growth of heavy bamboo grass (sasa), which often reaches six feet and ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Mosquitoes of Okinawa and islands in the central Pacific 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Navy Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, [1946?]
    ... containers and tree holes, more rarely in cut bamboo, rock holes and leaf axils. In Hawaii they ... made in tree holes, coconut shells and cut bamboo. Larvae prefer rainwater but will live in chlorinated ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The mosquitoes of Japan and their medical importance 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Navy Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, [1946?]
    ... additional information of Japanese species. Four species, Tripterqides bambusa, Culiseta kanayamensis. Aedes nobukonis and Culex hayashii were ... spots, male palpu s short as in female Tripteroides bambusa (p. 15) 13. Scutum with a median longitudinal ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Living off the land 
    Publication: Eglin Field, Florida : Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Information Center, [1944?]
    ... made, perhaps, from a hollowed-out section of bamboo. You should get close to a cup of ... may be chewed for their moisture content. A bamboo thicket may offer an additional source of water. ...
  7. ... everlasting, Gnaphalium polycephalum. “ White, Life everlasting, “ “ “ wood, Myroxylon. Bamboo, Bambusa arundinacea. “ brier, Southern states sarsaparilla Smilax sarsaparilla. ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Survival on land and sea 
    Publication: [Washington] : Publications Branch, Office of Naval Intelligence, United States Navy, 1944
    ... cooking pot or a section cut from a bamboo tree (see p. 41, under Sea Food) you ... a container of boiling water. Sec- tions of bamboo can serve this purpose. Cut a section from ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - A key to the Chinese culicine mosquitoes 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., 1946
    ... upon man. The larvae occur in tree holes, bamboos, and artificial receptacles where they are predaceous on ... similar habits and is usually found breeding in bamboos. It occurs in India, Java, Cochin China and ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - How to survive on land and sea : individual survival 
    Publication: Annapolis, Maryland : United States Naval Institute, 1943
    ... Palms, 161 Assai Palm, 162 Rattan Palms, 163 Bamboo, 164 Sugar Cane, 164 Bananas and Plantains, 164 ... rafts than green or hard woods. Bundles of bamboo bound together with vines and lashed to cross ...
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