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...medal is for sharp-shooters.") Quick-tongued now, he shines at the annual military ball: "Ted, that's the dreamiest band I've ever danced to." "And you're the dreamiest girl I ever danced with." He has fun at summer camp, talking with the fellows over chow ("I feel plenty rugged after my first morning!") shooting machine guns ("Boy, this training sure is like the real thing!"), meeting bathing girls at the pool ("Kinda makes me wish I was a local boy!"). At the end of the four-year whirl, he is chosen to escort the campus queen...
...couple of nights ago we stopped in the tunnel. At dinner time they told us we were going for chow in groups of 30. I was in the first group. They marched us up the track and made us sit in a little straw. Then I watched the guard throw the safety on his burp gun. I thought he was just doing it to scare us. But when he started firing I fell over and played dead. I prayed too. In the confusion I ran across a field. In the field I picked up four radishes. I jumped into another...
...German people began to look at him. He took to packing two .45s, remarked loudly, "If some German thinks he wants to get me, he better make sure he does it with his first shot, because I was raised with a pistol in my hand." Once, just after chow in an Army mess, he turned violently ill, was certain the German cooks had poisoned him. He was delighted when the Army returned him to the U.S., felt better still last March when it shipped him half a world away from Germany, to duty on Eniwetok Atoll in the mid-Pacific...
...Wilson Fielder knew the Far East as well as he did his own country: China was his first home. The son of U.S. Baptist missionaries, he was born in Cheng-chow, learned to speak Chinese as he learned English. After grade and high school at American schools in Honan Province, he went to the U.S. to college, studied journalism and history at Texas' Baylor University, in due time broke into the newspaper business as a reporter on the Waco News-Tribune...
...ghost of the Korean coast." Officers who remembered the Solomons campaign spoke of the beat between southern Japan and Korea as "The Little Slot." Said a junior officer: "This is the only way to fight war for me, fat and happy, waiting for it to come to you. Good chow, showers and clean bunk." Rear Admiral John Higgins, whose flag is in the Juneau, smiled happily. This was what the Navy called esprit de corps. The Juneau headed back to her base in Japan to get more ammunition...