Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors who were caring for Pfc. Leo Kijowski at Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio well knew that skin from an identical twin is as good as a patient's own for repairing burns by skin graft. The trouble was that the doctors had no idea that Leo Kijowski, seared in a battlefield explosion on the Korean front, had such a handy relative...
...Pfc. Smith was relieved but shaken. "This cuts my pay about $17 a month," he said, "and besides, they've taken my Good Conduct Medal away from...
Crooner Vic Damone, now an Army pfc., arrived in Paris on a few days' leave. His new career? "I didn't exactly take the Army job. You might say they drafted me for it. For the record you can quote me as saying that I like the Army. I like the Army. I really...
...unfolding story. The Pentagon found that the Red list included 20 names of men previously recorded as killed in action. At Ft. MacArthur, Calif., Private Antonio Apodaca, a Korea veteran, found his name on the list. In Atlanta, Mrs. William Sasser gasped incredulously when she heard the name "Pfc. Walter Dixon." That was the name of her first husband, who was reported killed in action last May. At week's end the Defense Department was still checking into the case...
G.I.s will have a chance to see the winners when the Army sends the show on a nationwide tour beginning at the Pentagon in January. They should get their biggest satisfaction out of the first-prize cartoon by Pfc. Robert Miller of Philadelphia. Miller's prizewinner: a series of pumpkin-simple caricatures of the Army face, from private to general, in which the privates clearly come off best. Says Artist Miller: "It expresses kind of the way I feel about the Army...