Word: awolers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Army a soldier who goes AWOL gets guardhouse sentence. But the WAACs are of the Army but not in it, have no hard & fast rules as yet about going AWOL. Colonel Hoag, not yet decided what to do with Private Gregory (22 years old Dec. 12), kept her confined to quarters. Said he: "She was just a girl who had no understanding of her responsibilities...
...without his gun, caught the eye of Lieut. General Ben Lear, who stopped his car, ordered him in. On the man's shoulder was a white rag-mark of an umpire. The soldier explained: "I'm a neutral, sir." More and firmer questioning proved the soldier was AWOL, had wandered into the maneuver area on the way back to his outfit from North Carolina. To his outfit -and the MPs-the imaginative and resourceful soldier was promptly delivered by his general...
...gunner," Kelly Albert, was a Detroit boy who had once worked for Ford, had enlisted in the Canadian tank corps, whence he had been AWOL since April. The "sergeant pilot," Robert Poynter, another Detroit boy, had worked for Hudson, had enlisted in Canada in the Polish armed forces in November 1941, but had been taken home by his parents as underage. On his 20th birthday he enlisted again, was honorably discharged. He started to bum around, met Albert. "We had to say something," said "Gunner" Albert...
...Violinist Yehudi's youngest sister, eloped to Reno from her parents' home in Los Gatos, Calif., with Private Benjamin Rolfe, 27. Yaltah, who divorced Attorney William Stix last year, soon parted with her groom who returned to Fort Ord to be tossed into the guardhouse for going AWOL. Papa Menuhin withheld his blessing, explained: "It will take time to swallow and digest the news." Private Rolfe, unabashed and "utterly unmusical," declared: "There is enough musical genius in that family already...