Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education. That too is the job of our public and private institutions. It is not the realm of the military. They speak of rearing the national youth to its responsibility of citizenship. Everyone knows that the Army is a buck-passing institution from the highest general to the lowest pfc. But few realize that buck-passing is the refusal to accept responsibility. Citizenship is not to be learned in an institution where responsibility is something to pass on to another and initiative in action something to be shunned...
...PFC.) THOMAS N. LEIBRAND...
...month ago 26-year-old Pfc. Charles Horn of Los Angeles landed in the U.S. after three months in Europe with the 86th ("Blackhawk") Division. He and his buddies headed for home and 30-day furloughs. This week, their furloughs over, the men of the 86th are back in camp in Oklahoma, first ETO division to get into retraining for the war in the Pacific. In a few weeks they would be shipped off again. Like thousands of other G.I.s of the Blackhawks, all Pfc. Horn had left of his 30 days was the recollection. This was how his furlough...
...slender, 19-year-old marine reported for duty last week at the carpenter shop of Camp Pendleton, Calif. For one of the mightiest small fights in World War II, Pfc. Andrew Jackson ("Duke") Carter Jr. of Paducah, Tex. had only one mark to show; he had a deep red scar on his right hand...
...Grenades. While Pfc. Carter ran back a few yards to get another rifle from the company command post, the enemy started tossing hand grenades. One landed inside the foxhole. Harrell tried to find it and throw it back. It blew off his left hand. His left thigh was broken, too, and he bled from many wounds made by fragments of the grenade...