Word: goguen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None in the train were heroes to themselves, or to each other. But all knew what everyone had done. The marines pointed out Sergeant Al Goguen, onetime cab driver, holder of the Silver Star, unofficially credited with killing 700 Japs on two successive nights. But Al said: "Everybody tries to snow the folks. I had two machine guns, and I grabbed the guns a couple of times when my gunner got shot, until the assistant gunner came up. But that was my job. . . . Those figures? God, I don't know how many Japs we got. Everybody tries to snow...
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