The Bloody Wet
1943-44
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By late 1943 the U.S. Armed Forces in New Guinea, the big island north of Australia, numbered in excess of 120,000. There was as yet no overseas beer ration. Some Air Corps units flew liquor from Australia and numerous GIs distilled or tried to distill "jungle juice," i.e., rotten fruit and (it was said) old shoes left to ferment in 55-gallon oil drums. By and large, however, New Guinea was as dry as Death Valley: a vast market awaiting exploitation. MP Sgt. Harry Parker and Cpl. Arnold Saljeski concoct a plot to do just that and "get rich" with the liquor a U.S. Officers Club in Australia has on order for the holidays. They enlist First Lt. William (Billy) Gote, a C47 pilot, and Pfc. Eddie Devlin, an Army clerk, in this plot and succeed in hijacking the aforesaid liquor. But complications promptly arise.
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This is the third in a series of nine satiric, comedic novels (The Eddie Devlin Compendium) that follow a gaggle of characters, Edward Temperance Devlin foremost among them, from the Stock Market Crash of 1929 through the Great Depression, World War II, the post-war years, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate etc. to the Millennium and beyond. With illustrations by the author.
Books:Flacks (1973)
Bringing Chesty Home (1948)
Clyde Strikes Back (1963-64)
Deadlines (1984-85)
Old Tim's Estate (1929-35)
Replevy for a Flute (1956)
The Bloody Wet (1943-44)
The Survivors (1999-2000)
Wildcat Strike (1939)
About the Author
T.R. St. George spent 39 months in the Southwest Pacific in World War II, by turn a private and private first class in an Infantry reconnaissance platoon, a corporal and half the staff of a division newspaper and, eventually a sergeant, a reporter for YANK, the weekly Army magazine published around the world.