Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camp Perry, Ohio national rifle matches, methodically plunked all 50 of his shots into the bull's-eye at distances of 200 to 600 yds., registered the first perfect score of 250 points in the 55-year history of national trophy matches. Three days later Army Pfc. Philip Toloczko, 23, turned the same trick...
...Guard T-33 jet trainer frisked around above the green valleys of Maryland and northern Virginia on a routine flight. In the cockpit was the pilot, Captain Julius R. McCoy, 34, of the Maryland Air National Guard, and his passenger Donald Chalmers, 26, Baltimore law student and National Guard Pfc., up on his first flight. At 8,500 ft. over western Maryland the T-Bird headed into a thin cloud in a steep right turn, slipped out of the cloud and sheared into the side of a Capital Airlines turboprop Viscount en route from Pittsburgh to Baltimore. Both planes spun...
...Cherry Point, N.C., Marine Pfc. Matthew C. McKeon, broken from staff sergeant for leading six Parris Island boots to their drowning in a disciplinary night march (TIME, April 23, Aug. 13, 1956), was voted "Marine of the Month" by his present outfit, the 114th All Weather Fighter Squadron...
...Bayonne were surprised and proud to see one of our boys on the cover of TIME [Oct. 7]. You called him "a paratrooper"; to us he is Pfc. Robert Patrick Cofield, 19, Company B, 327th Infantry, 101st Airborne. Pat volunteered for the paratroops a year ago to show that he was as good as his older brother Mike, who used to be a paratrooper with the Sand Airborne. He is a quiet, friendly, easy going guy, popular in his neighborhood. Since...
...Marine Pfc. Adolph W. Merten took a blurry look at the barroom quintet and decided he saw four Japanese Communists all set to kill an American Army sergeant. Merten, a Korea veteran subject to "Bolshephobia" (i.e., seeing Red) when liquored up, fired five wavering revolver shots. Shiro Takawa, 19, no Communist but simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable...