Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television scene flickered into millions of American homes in all its grim and ghastly detail. There, before CBS news cameras set up at a 1st Infantry Division base 50 miles north of Saigon, were three dead Viet Cong whose ears had been cut off by souvenir-hunting G.I.s. "You must understand," said CBS Newsman Don Webster, reporting from the scene, "the emotional state of some of these men, and their anger and sorrow at the loss of their buddies. A few days from now, these soldiers will probably be as aghast as anyone at what they've done...
...prisoners. On the American side, G.I.s generally resist the temptation to retaliate, but a minority now and then will cut off a few fingers or ears from the enemy dead as trophies. Such was the case with Specialist Fourth Class George Pawlaczyk, 22, a reporter and photographer for the 1st Infantry Division newspaper, and Specialist Fifth Class Franklin Passantino, 21, a muscular combat medic who has won both a Bronze and Silver Star and been recommended for another Bronze Star. Pawlaczyk and Passantino were with the 1st Battalion's 18th Regiment on Oct. 7, when it engaged...
World's Biggest PX. Basic drives remain simple. First come good food, clean sheets and hot water. "I took four showers the first day," says SP4 Ethen Woodward, a mortarman with the 1st Infantry Division. "I hadn't had a hot shower in ten months." Some first seek out the local R & R center and gorge on fresh milk, hamburgers and ice cream. Next objective is usually, in the words of a 173rd Airborne trooper, "a girl." But, he added carefully, "I'm also very interested in the cultural bit. I figure I may only be coming...
Fastest-rising star is Sydney, Australia, which was only put on the R & R list two months ago; its appeal is great surfing, a change of diet ("No rice on the plate," says one G.I.), and a place where everybody speaks English. Says Lieut. Tom Ryan, of the 1st Airborne Division and Big Rapids, Mich.: "It's great just to see white girls with round eyes again." Major Norman G. Lau-meyer of Long Prairie, Minn., a helicopter pilot of the 1st Cavalry Division and a farmer in civilian life, took a day's flying tour to inspect...
...Winfield, a junior who won all three of his bouts last week against C.C.N.Y., was victorious in his 1st two saber matches and substitute Abott won a third round saber match against Nelson...