Word: gi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Studying Under Gi Bill...
...required books for next fall were published by the Veterans Bureau, or possibly PBH, and the Bureau were to pay the student up to 70 per cent of the original cost, a pool of books could be built up, for which the veteran would be charged under the GI authorization only enough more than the turn-in price to take care of overhead costs. Obviously if the government is doing the paying, no one is going to buy secondhand books if new ones are available, but until that time when enough books are on the market, such a turn...
...GI recovering from his wounds in an Army hospital anywhere in England in the six months following D-Day knew the words Lichfield and Kilian as well as he knew the location of the nearest pub. Through the far-reaching military grapevine came unbelievable tales about the guardhouse at the Tenth Depot and of the colonel in command. Former pass from the Lichfield base would continually warn their buddies: "Keep your nose clean when you get there." They beat prisoners there, they told you, and some guys died from the beatings. To those who wondered why nothing had been done...
Such is the background to the current trials at Bad Nauheim, Germany, where Kilian, several lower ranking officers, and enlisted guards are on trial for alleged mistreatment of GI prisoners. Sergeant Judson Smith, chief non-commissioned officer at the guardhouse, received three years at hard labor and a dishonorable discharge. Other enlisted men are serving prison sentences of lesser length. And last week a first lieutenant, first officer to be tried and the man alleged to have ordered the beatings, heard his sentence-admonition and a fine of $250, or approximately one month...
...only other Crimson representative to place was Dave Murray, who was second in the javelin throw, an event in which the winner, GI Milt Kodash, set a new meet record with a heave of 193 feet, 9 inches...