Word: furloughs
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Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, now an infantry instructor at Fort Benning, overstayed a furlough in Pittsburgh by six days, was hailed before a court-martial. The officer-judges sentenced the holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor to: $90 fine, 90 days confinement to camp. Asked Kelly: "Can I go to the movies?" Said the court-martial : Yes, if the movies are in the camp...
...room in TIME to bring you all his stories-about Marine Edwards whose name must go on the long list of men whose lives have been saved by bullet-bouncing Bibles . . . about the bettingest man in the First Division, who won $29,000 but lost his furlough privilege on the turn of a card and never did get home . . . about the night-club owner in San Diego who almost turned Sgt. Owen Justin away because his identification card was too stained with jungle sweat to be legible...
These men on the troop train, already famed in communiqués and the war's best-sellers,* were heading home for a 30-day furlough after 27 months of battle...
...Chartiers, Pa., where a mine explosion had killed six a fortnight earlier, eleven more people died in the tornado. Private John Barnish, home on furlough, had lost his father when the explosion laid waste the little town. After the tornado. Private Barnish had his mother and a sister, 12, to bury...
...Younger Generation 2nd Lieut. John Eisenhower, just out of West Point and expecting a 30-day furlough before reporting to Fort Benning's Infantry School, instead realized the dream of every shavetail: by direct orders of General George C. Marshall, he was given a 30-day assignment on the personal staff of the Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces. The Lieutenant got to England in time to visit the beachhead with his father...