Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faces of the men lining the transport's rail showed little emotion. They puffed cigarettes and stared at shoreside railroad cars loaded with jeeps, at fireboats squirting a welcome. There was no mood of wild celebration. "We figure we'll have to go back there," said Pfc. George Miller, of Brooklyn. All Corporal Raymond Herren wanted was to get back to Alton, Ill. and see his wife and kids. "The boy, Paul, I've never seen," remarked Herren. "He was born in October. You miss things besides drinking and helling around. You just want to see green...
...advancing U.S. Marines two miles northwest of Hoengsong. It was part of the most horribly concentrated display of American dead since the Korean war began. Near the road the marines found two wounded, half-frozen U.S. soldiers-a 19-year-old infantry corporal, and a 35-year-old pfc. in the artillery. They were the only survivors of a U.S. 155-mm. battery and its infantry guard, ambushed and annihilated three weeks ago. In an aid station at Wonju airstrip, the corporal and the pfc. told their stories...
...black-bearded pfc. took up the story: "The Chinks hit the driver in the front machine, and that stopped the column. Everybody got rattled. As soon as somebody fell, the Chinks would grab his weapon. Somebody hollered 'There's one!' and I fired. But it was only a tree. Somebody hollered 'Let's get out of here.' I turned around and the world seemed to explode at my feet. Blood gushed everywhere. I knew I had had it then and there...
...Just Like Home, Eh?" Later, a Chinese soldier showed the corporal a hut, where the pfc. had already taken refuge...
...with their smashing slam. During the barrage, the Americans scanned Hill 166. When the shelling lifted, they went back to their small arms. Sergeant Thomas Toolen pointed to a Red pillbox nestled close by the graves. "See it?" he asked then "Hey, Graham, give him a couple of rounds!" Pfc. Donald Graham fired a short burst from his BAR across the shallow valley into the Communist emplacements. A man started from the pillboxes and dived into a nearby hole...