Word: dix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cantonments for 1,200,000 men; that examples of "outrageous waste" were Camp Blanding, Fla. (near Jacksonville), where a bad choice of sites cost an unnecessary $5 million; Camp Meade, where the Army spent $17,364 to build the same kind of barracks which cost $9,822 at Camp Dix...
Perfect Matches. In Washington, Elizabeth Bliss married a Lieut. Divine. In Bozeman, Mont., a marriage license was issued to Charles Wheat and Agnes Cotton. In Coronado, Calif., one Dorothy Dix was wed to a Lieut. Danny Deaver...
...Vincent Rizzitello, a small, wiry, 26-year-old combat infantryman from Newark, N.J., was at Fort Dix, a replacement center near Trenton, N.J. What victory in Europe mostly meant to him was that he would probably be seeing something of the Pacific...
...fought in Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. He wore a Purple Heart, a Presidential unit citation (the 3rd Division's), battle stars for six campaigns. On his furlough to the U.S. this spring he had taken a wife; he had made his farewell the day he went to Dix to get on with...
...plus four, Pfc. Rizzitello got a series of pleasant surprises. A Fort Dix clerk had figured Rizzitello's discharge credits under the Army's scoring plan announced last week. Infantryman Rizzitello had been in the Army 56 months-that was 56 points; he had been overseas 32 months-that was 32 more; he had 40 points for his battle stars and decorations. He had a total of 128 points and he had won discharge from the service...