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Near San Vittore, 19 Germans held one U.S. prisoner, Billy Miller from Peoria, Ill. The 21-year-old doughboy (in civilian life a doughroller) made the Germans believe that they were surrounded, brought one Nazi lieutenant, 18 men, seven automatics, nine binoculars, one machine pistol back to the U.S. lines...
...city daily Stars & Stripes. His analysis of his readers: "The average G.I. Joe wants to see his name in print and likes to laugh at himself and his pals." Accordingly, Robinson handles front-line news in facetious but never flippant style. Battlefront pictures are taboo, since the doughboy knows what the front looks like. No button-polishing publicity sheet, 48th News carries officers' stories only when they are really interesting. (The division's general was interviewed when he took over, has been mentioned only twice since...
...incident" was a small explosion touched off by the Stars & Stripes in Italy in an editorial entitled: "He Wants Home." Sure, the U.S. doughboy wants to go home, said the editorial, but "there is hardly a thinking man . . . who doesn't admit that it would be foolish to throw away all the battle experience picked up by our veteran troops by sending them home to sit in garrisons...
...average Tommy, with a Dunkirk and the blitzing of his home behind [him], is doggedly resigned to seeing the war through.* The Russian has certainly hung on as though he understood what a Hitler defeat would mean. [But] to the doughboy all this fighting is only a distasteful prelude to returning home. Nothing else...
...nominate the U.S. Doughboy...