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Last week the Hearstmen picked themselves up off the floor. Their "hero" had exploded right in their faces. At Fort Devens, Mass., Private McGee had just been sentenced to six months for being AWOL and drunk, and for making false statements under oath. The false statements: that he had been in combat, had won the Purple Heart and Silver Star. The conviction, the court-martial revealed, was the thirteenth of McGee's Army career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst Hero | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

During this year's first three months, 50 patients left Rutland without hospital discharges. This high AWOL rate is characteristic of veterans' hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Careless Care for Veterans? | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...estimated 4,000 of the 6,300 Canadian soldiers who had gone AWOL to avoid overseas service (TIME, Jan. 29) were still loose, many in bush country hideouts, some in the U.S. Clearly, to capture them all would take a lot of time, a lot of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: Deserter Hunt | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

With money supplied by relatives they bought liquor, which they smuggled into their quarters. Frequently they went AWOL and roamed the nearby towns, making ardent and often successful love to local girls. Two towns had barred them. Citizens of another town had one waylaid and thrashed a group of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Tobacco Road Gang | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...Informers tattled on others. Some deserters were caught in the Army's net. But the catch was not big. Last week the Defense Department announced that of the 6,300-odd soldiers reported AWOL two weeks before, 4,600 were still at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE SERVICES: Missing Men | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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