Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teaser. At Fort Sam Houston, Texas, curious personnel officers had a talk with WAC Pfc. Gloria Yeager, who had listed her civilian occupation as "stripper," learned that she used to strip tobacco leaves in a cigarette factory...
...Making him one of three quadruple amputees of the Korean war. The other two (also wounded in the Changjin Reservoir area and victims of the bitter cold): Army Pfc. Robert L. Smith, 20, Middleburg, Pa. (TIME, Jan. 8); Marine Sergeant Werner Reininger, 22, San Antonio, Texas...
This year, Joseph Fain began to fail; he had an incurable cancer of the throat. He told his wife that he had one great desire: to meet Tiritilli face to face and hear more about Pfc. Truman Fain. Last week Fain got his wish. At the Fain family's request, the Navy Department took Sergeant Tiritilli-a husky, somber soldier of 30-away from his duties at Norfolk, flew him to Independence. Fain was dying by the time the sergeant arrived at his bedside. But when his wife whispered the visitor's name, Fain opened his eyes, smiled...
...Pfc.) KARL LAVAL YOUNG c/o Postmaster San Francisco...
...TIME, June 25, you say that Pfc. Willie Thompson was the first Negro since the Spanish-American War to win the Congressional Medal of Honor...