Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most Important Man. The climax of the show brought the President out of his mood of beaming good humor with a start. When Mrs. Alben Barkley wheeled onstage "the most important man in the U.S.," Pfc. Anthony Troilo, 25, who had lost both legs in Korea, Harry Truman was the first man on his feet, grim-jawed and clapping...
...hard-frozen roads. Out of recaptured Osan, two armor-tipped task forces -officially labeled a "reconnaissance in force"-rumbled north at 15 to 20 m.p.h. They caught most of the Chinese garrison in Suwon warming themselves in houses. The first shot was fired by an 18-year-old pfc. who spotted a Red scampering across a field, dropped him with one rifle bullet...
Without protest, hard-bitten photographers put down their cameras, as attendants gently lifted down a stretcher and loaded it into a waiting ambulance. On it, swathed to his neck in heavy G.I. blankets, lay Pfc. Robert L. Smith, a 20-year-old soldier from Middleburg, Pa., who had suffered as grievously as a man could and still live. He was the first quadruple amputee of the Korean war.* Both hands were amputated, one leg was amputated at the knee, the other slightly below...
...Army's Walter Reed Hospital, Pfc. Smith found plenty of care and solicitude, and a visitor. His mother had been flown to Washington in a plane chartered by the American Legion. She had fainted when she was first told of her son's injuries, but when she met him in the hospital room, there were no tears. She leaned over and kissed him while he feebly tried to put his right arm about her. The room was filled with legionnaires, and one of them took the occasion to explain that Bob would receive full disability for the rest...
...There were two in World War II, both now doing well: Master Sgt. Frederic Hensel is an Alabama farmer, and Pfc. Jimmy Wilson a law student at the University of Colorado...