Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salute for a Pfc. By11 a.m. all of the 100 U.N. soldiers had been delivered. The non-Koreans included 30 Americans, twelve British, four Turks, one each from Canada, the Philippines, South Africa, Greece. Among these were four stretcher cases-three Americans and one Turk...
...long woolen underwear and brown sweater, lying in an old Korean graveyard in no man's land, only 350 yards from the neutral perimeter of Panmunjom. Cautiously, a squad of marines started toward him. Part way down the hill, a Puerto Rican marine recognized the wounded man as Pfc. Francisco Gonzalez Matias, 21, of San Sebastian, P.R. In Spanish, Gonzalez was asked if he could walk. Clutching a handkerchief in which was wrapped a rosary, the wounded man struggled to his feet, stumbled toward the patrol. Twice he fell. A chaplain with the squad called to him to pray...
...Pfc. Sack boarded the prisoner ship--an LST--at Cheju Island. It was enroute to Pusan, Korea, with a load of Chinese Communists bound for repatriation. As the prisoners filed off the ship at Pusan, military police spotted Sack and detained him for violating a "no press allowed...
...Tucson, Ariz. Daily Star provides us with an appropriate sequel to an item which appeared in TIME's Miscellany section Dec. 8. The story told of Pfc. Richard Barcello of Tucson, wounded on Triangle Hill, being carried to a field hospital by another soldier from Tucson, and then being treated by a doctor from Tucson. When Barcello reached the base hospital near Tokyo, the Star reported, the nurse assigned to him was Lieut. Norma Ashburn-from Tucson...
...life. When they land at Hoboken this week, James Magee will be at dockside to welcome them. As their sponsor, he has promised to provide shelter for the Van Der Tuyns and their six apple-cheeked children, to help father Van Der Tuyn get a job. Back in Holland, Pfc. Magee's grave will not be forgotten: Madame Van Der Tuyn's sister has promised to care...