Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cliff's mother kept his age a secret as long as she could: for 15 months. Then she asked the Army to send Cliff home...
...When Cliff Wherley was 14, he saw a movie about Sergeant York. That was in March 1942. He thought it over until 4 a.m., then slipped out of his Elmwood, Ill. home, caught a bus for Peoria, enlisted. Big for his age ("the best hay baler in the country"), Farmboy Wherley looked 18 to the U.S. Army...
...with medal and campaign ribbons, leaned back in War Secretary Stimson's office chair, sitting before Robert Todd Lincoln's old desk, and received the press. Still under age, Hero Wherley was being discharged from the Air Forces. But before his uniform and stripes are put away, Cliff will make a nationwide morale tour. The story he has to tell is a boy's dream in Technicolor. The Army believes it will spur a landslide of 17-year-old enlistments. Cliff Wherley...
Near the end of a sharp cliff on this hill was a white house, and we promptly nicknamed the hill White House Hill. We could see Kelly's men climbing from the ravine to the lower slopes of the hill. We could also see some of the enemy, but Kelly could not see them. Near the white house was an enemy machine gun. Enemy soldiers came out of the house, some going to the machine gun and some creeping on their bellies to the edge of the cliff...
...JOHN McMANUS, a former yeoman, had been a Boston College Track Star and still makes his Saturday nite runs into Boston. . . DAVE HORWITZ was in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in late '42 and spent some time on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey, when you visit me here please...