My late next door nieghbor was unfortunate enough to be on New Guinea by Christmas of 1942. Had a very detailed description of a halftrack plowing through the woods (driver dead), on fire, until it became wedged between two trees. Treads spinning in the air.

It took 2 weeks to recover the remains of the driver.

Six months later, the British forces in the area had confirmed that the Japanese were cannibalizing the dead, wounded, and captured.

Ultimately, what they went through was [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RS7wOfbbx8]dusted-off[/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEGuFK2YoZs]polished a bit[/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjGMF5dt4Y]and turned into official US policy just in time for Vietnam[/url].
-Including landing planes in elephant-grass up to your head.

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A paymaster descibed how -in order to avoid snipers- the truck carrying him would not stop to let him off, instead it would slow down to about 30 mph, and two guys would catapult him out the back, he'd perform a half-turn in mid-air, and land running for the nearest ditch armed with just a pistol and payroll for an entire battalion.

Getting picked up was never really described. But it probably involved being a human-mailbag. At night. With the driver in blackout conditions.
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[i]On a lighter note:[/i] Tony Stark impersonating Nick Fury.