Word: awols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stamford, Conn., an AWOL soldier, with a coat bearing the name Doak and a bracelet identifying him as Leslie Tripp, was reported to have ad mitted that though he had last married under the name Arthur R. Daly, he was actually John R. Schwartz...
...legend is that he went AWOL from the school in order to get in a few personal licks at the Germans and narrowly escaped serious disciplining. The fact is he was decorated with a Distinguished Service Cross for his exploits in France...
...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...