A note of unbounded confidence in captains and comrades predominates in all the letters, but always there is the eager and in: ent, but never flinching, plaint that our men have been prodigiously outnumbered in action after action.
"There are millions more of them to finish"; "this'is their strong point, they have an almost unlimited supply of men. For every man that fell, ten took his place" won. "they came on us like an avalanche"—passages such as these occur most frequently and the impression left by Tommy's crisp and unpremeditated comment is that he is always more astounded than alarmed at the overwhelming numbers pitted against him.
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