Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body of Pfc. Alton B. Sterner, killed last June in Korea, came home to Rockwood (pop. 1,237), Pa., with an official Army escort, Sergeant Ira Frank Green, 25. He had known Sterner and had been in correspondence with the dead man's 19-year-old widow Alma. Green asked Alma to marry him. The widow quickly said...
...even worse straits was 23-year-old Mrs. Agnes Dixon, who married William Sasser of La Grange, N.C. on the strength of an official War Department report that her first husband. Pfc. Walter Dixon, had died of wounds in Korea. In January 1952, after the Communists disclosed that Dixon was a prisoner, Mrs. Dixon got her marriage to Sasser annulled. Six months later she gave birth to a son. Though she named the boy William Charles Dixon, Mrs. Dixon is currently living with her second husband's family (Sasser himself lives elsewhere). Pfc. Dixon, who was released a week...
...progressives,"as these were called, almost always squealed on their mates. Some of the "rats" or "cheese-eaters" who gave information to the Communists were not "pros"; they tattled for extra food, extra cigarettes. Said one pfc.: "If you insulted a cheese-eater or a pro, you'd be hurtin...
...Pfc. Lawrence Rix of Dowagiac, Mich, had only done what many prisoners do: he stole food. Somebody squealed, and he was stripped almost naked and forced to stay in a cold hole for two days. Pfc. Joe Allen told of a "pro" who reported him when he tried to escape with a buddy. The guards picked them up. Allen signed a confession, but his fellow escapee decided to hold out for a while. The Chinese put him in a damp cellar. Said Allen: "A few days later they carried him out of the camp. He was dead...
...whites, tried to separate them ideologically as well. Negroes who tried to chat with their white friends were told: "You can't talk to them in America; why talk to them here?" For two hours a day, the Negroes were lectured on the Negro problem in the U.S. Pfc. Alfred Simpson, a Negro from Philadelphia, said the men were encouraged to speak out freely in discussion groups, but were punished if they said the wrong things. Reported Simpson...