The women were carrying infants and their husbands shabby suitcases. and the retirement was harried by the puffs of fresh gas bombs. Gallinger Hospital was beginning to fill up with casualties. The evening noises were frightening: ambulance sirens. fire engines. galloping horses. tramping soldiers. newsboys hawking extras. and the clanking of the tanks. whose role was. and would continue to be. quite vague: "so far as I can recall." Eisenhower wrote toward the end of his life. "they took no part whatever in the movements to evacuate the veterans." although there was plenty of time for them. because the retirement "proceeded slowly." Nevertheless. by 9 p.m. the refugees had crossed the Eleventh Street Bridge and joined the main BEF camp on the far shore. MacArthurs force had cleared out other camps on C Street. on Maryland and Maine Avenues. along the wharves. and near the Congressional Library. Stacking arms near a gas works at about eight oclock. the troops messed at a field kitchen while their leader contemplated his next move.
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