Word: awoler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of its similarities, this was no Nazi concentration camp, but the prison stockade of the U.S. Army's 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield, in England's Midlands. The victims of these brutalities were U.S. soldiers-most of them AWOL (often by the technicality of having overstayed a pass by a few hours); only a small proportion of them were guilty of more serious crimes...
Private Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, playful great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, sued his wife for divorce while he sweated out a sentence, his second, for going AWOL. The wife: Cafe Society Character Lenore Lemmon, who married him in 1941 and abruptly went home to mother crying that he was tattooed from head to foot. Jakie's divorce charge: she was AWOL...
After that he joined the Army. He went AWOL, had to be jerked back to the ranks by MPs, was soon discharged. This year he retired from the ring, busied himself in affairs-the saloon and racehorse business. At 3 o'clock one morning last week he was sitting in a Canarsie bar & grill named Dudy's Tavern when four holdup men walked in, yanked out pistols, ordered the bartender to hand over his cash...
...August 1942, while I was file clerk of the 726th M.P. Battalion, Camp Beauregard, La., I handled the papers of a recruit who was grey-haired and well over 60 years of age. He had 15,988 days "bad time" (AWOL) and a year and a half unexpired term of a three-year enlistment remaining to be served...
Adrien Demers enlisted in May, 1940, was shipped to a Canadian camp near Guildford, England. He went AWOL at Christmas time, he said, because a guardroom sergeant made his life miserable. Then, for four years and eight months, right under the noses of the Canadian Army, he lived an unsoldierly life of Riley...