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...Swimming Coach Joe Bernal has seven experienced swimmers joining his squad: backstroker Roland Wagner, the Swiss national champion; Olympic qualifier Scott Hoy from Australia; sprinters Keith Kaplan of Mattapan, N.J., and Bob Morrison of Portland, Ind.; Paul Ryder, an all-around swimmer from Servana Park, Md.; distance swimmer Mike Caverly of Lacadia, Ca.; and Robert Perkins, a backstroker from Middlebrook...
Elsewhere, tantalizing tidbits trickled out to support both sides of the Mengele argument. Six days before the exhumation at Embu, Alfonz Dierckx, a Belgian photographer based in Paraguay, told the Paraguayan paper Hoy that Mengele, whom he had known in the early 1960s, had gone to a German colony in Brazil. There, said Dierckx, he had drowned some years earlier...
...finally uncovered a rusted Canadian helmet. A former U.S. sergeant spent an entire day looking for the house where he had knocked out a German machine gun. When he found it, he cried, "That is why I came, that is why I came." William K. Van Hoy, 62, a retired postman from Milwaukee, Ore., wanted to show his son the place near St.-Malo where he was wounded...
What sticks in Van Hoy's memory even more vividly, though, is an incident during the attack on St.-Lô. "I had just lost two of my best friends," he says. "They were picked off right next to me. Then, in St.-Lô, we had just seized an artillery battery and taken all these prisoners when our own artillery started hitting all around us. I jumped into a bunker hole with two of the Germans. They marked on the side of the wall that they were 17 years old and had bicycled for three weeks from Germany to get there...
...James M. Hoy Houston...