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...helmet left behind when the Japanese stole quietly away from jog-bound Kiska...
...stepped down onto U.S. soil agleam with 24 stars, variously placed, all glittering: four on his shiny steel helmet, four on each shoulder loop, four on each collar tab, and four on the black butt of the automatic pistol at his hip. On the side of his helmet was the painted insigne of the armored divisions; on the front, below the stars, was the Third Army's "A"-which, in photographs, looked like a fifth star. On his chest was a quintuple corsage of campaign ribbons; on his left sleeve, five overseas bars and four wound chevrons. He wore...
There He Is! As the crowds roared their applause, he stood stiffly erect in a Fire-Department touring car, bowing, saluting, holding his helmet over his heart. At Lexington, where the world-heard shot was fired in 1775, citizens had raised a banner: "WELCOME GEORGE BLOOD 'N' GUTS PATTON. NICE GOING!" At Cambridge City Hall the car drove beneath arched Fire-Department ladders. Handed a gavel .made from the Washington Elm, Georgie Patton promised, "I'll cherish it forever...
...covered the operation from a carabao cart, crouching low behind the swaying black rump of a carabao named Plaridel as we drove north from Manila. The sun beat down mercilessly and I wished I had brought a sun helmet. Sometimes I also wished I had brought my gas mask. And I certainly wished I had brought a pillow...
Stunned and bleeding, T/5 Louis F. Korineck Jr. of Manitowoc, Wis. turned up at a battalion aid station of the 38th Division on Luzon this week, demanding to know all the details about his wound. A doctor told him a bullet had penetrated his helmet above his left ear, creased his scalp and passed out of the helmet above his right ear. Then Korineck remembered something more important than treatment: "Call the sergeant right away," he shouted. "Tell him that sniper is right where we thought...