Word: awoler
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Over 21. In Lichfield, England, during his trial for being AWOL, Private Cornelius C. Knight, 28, told the court-martial he had married a woman who told him she was 32 when she was really 51 and "I just went all to pieces...
Brief Encounter. In Toledo. Private Doris Lee Reffitt, 23, arrested for being AWOL from Camp Lejeune, N.C., calmly told police that she joined the Marines only to spite her boy friend, and "quit" when they made...
Above Suspicion. In Bowling Green, Ohio, FBI men found Private Albert Furukawa, four months AWOL, living in an apartment over the office of Draft Board...
...younger brother is better informed and educated, much better trained, and less sorry for himself. Mauldin cartoons today would not find the popularity they did in World War II. The AWOL rate is down, even the use of profanity has fallen off (at least in Stateside camps). "Little Joe" gripes about his officers, distrusts politics and government (it is universally believed that "Harry Vaughan can transfer any man"). He does not go in for heroics, or believe in them. He is short on ideals, lacks self-reliance, is for personal security at any price. He singularly lacks flame. In spite...
...industrial district, Cub Reporter Bob Beason went into the water and waded and swam from building to building to assess damage. Reporter Bill Blair and Photographer Bob Youker persuaded a passing Army amphibious truck to ferry them about, were arrested for their enterprise; their soldier-chauffeur and truck were AWOL from Fort Leavenworth...