Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graves of Americans in the nearby U.S. Military Cemetery at Margraten, The Netherlands, Harry Van Der Tuyn thought it might be a small but altogether fitting means of repaying the liberators of his country. At first his soldier was unknown to Van Der Tuyn, except for the name Pfc. Edward John Magee on the plain white marker...
...Dutch family learned that Pfc. Magee, a lively kid, had left college and joined the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor. He shipped overseas, worked as an engineer in England and along the famed Red Ball Express through France, and got safely through the war. Three weeks after V-E Day, in May 1945, Magee was on duty as a sapper, clearing out old minefields near Bremerhaven. An unexploded mine went off, killing him instantly...
Reunion. In Korea, when Pfc. Richard Barcelo Jr. of Tucson, Ariz, was wounded by shrapnel on Triangle Hill, he was recognized by another soldier from Tucson, who carried him to a field hospital where he was treated by a doctor from Tucson...
...Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg, on a round-the-world inspection tour, touched down at a Korean airstrip, called for Marine Pfc. Nicholas Baldwin and handed him a big box of cookies. The general had met the marine's parents in Florence, Italy, and volunteered to play messenger. The marine's reaction: "I was plenty shook...
After a year in the U.S. Army, including nine months of German occupation duty, Pfc. Vito Farinola, 24, better known in his civilian days as Crooner Vic Damone, was home again to tackle an assignment right down his alley. Following official orders, Vic dropped into a Manhattan recording studio, cut a platter called The Girls Are Marching, a rousing new number which the Defense Department hopes will help recruit 80,00 women...