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...Army's Percy Jones hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan, Master Sergeant Frederic Hensel, 27, and his dark-haired wife Jewell celebrated their third wedding anniversary this week. Sergeant Hensel, the first U.S. "basket case" of World War II (TIME, July 23), got stacks of letters from all over the nation. Many contained cash-to help him start a chicken farm. Total anniversary gift: about...
...first U.S. "basket case"* of World War II was home last week. Master Sergeant Frederic Hensel, 26, of Corbin, Ky., got his crippling wounds from a mine on Okinawa. He was walking ahead of his companion to protect him from mines when he stepped on one himself. The explosion blew off both legs above the knee, his left arm above the elbow, mangled his right hand so badly that it had to be removed on the ship home...
Eventually Sergeant Hensel will be far from helpless. After operations on all four stumps, he will get artificial limbs and be able to walk again. Last week, still suffering from shock and slightly deaf from concussion, he was thinking of starting a little chicken farm when he is discharged. He told reporters: "This sure changes things a lot . . .I'd make an excellent propaganda photo to end all wars." His dark-haired wife, at the hospital to greet him, said: "We'll get along fine...
...little taller, greyer, soberer. In 1916 Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had been founded in Chester, Pa. largely to build oil tankers. Under shrewd Pew management Sun Shipbuilding became one of the biggest of its kind; money rolled in. Joe Pew married a Philadelphia girl, Alberta Hensel, quietly joined social life along the Main Line, raised a healthy brood, settled in swank Ardmore...
...Mendelssohn Family," by S. Hensel...