Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that a 23-year-old soldier from New Mexico, who had never harmed a flea in his life, could achieve such fame-and such authority? A paragraph of Up Front casts some light on the mystery. After five years in the Army, Bill Mauldin fully understands the infantryman, and he has a sharp eye, a good ear and a facile pen for transmitting his understanding. He wrote...
Married. Technical Sergeant Jake Lindsey, 24, just decorated by President Truman as the 100th World War II infantryman to win the Congressional Medal of Honor; and Beverly Hargreaves, 19, of Lexington, Mass., a blonde blind-date whom he met four years ago before shipping overseas; in Lucedale, Miss...
...Vincent Rizzitello, a small, wiry, 26-year-old combat infantryman from Newark, N.J., was at Fort Dix, a replacement center near Trenton, N.J. What victory in Europe mostly meant to him was that he would probably be seeing something of the Pacific...
...plus four, Pfc. Rizzitello got a series of pleasant surprises. A Fort Dix clerk had figured Rizzitello's discharge credits under the Army's scoring plan announced last week. Infantryman Rizzitello had been in the Army 56 months-that was 56 points; he had been overseas 32 months-that was 32 more; he had 40 points for his battle stars and decorations. He had a total of 128 points and he had won discharge from the service...
Then Airman-Infantryman Saunders became Seaman Saunders. He scrounged a sampan and sailed the Rangoon River southward. Soon he met British soldiers and passed the word. Then Rangoon was more fully and formally captured...