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...easily come by. Year-round, the youngsters let nothing, not even their school work, interfere with training. Every day finds them out in their sagging, stark black swim suits, ready to start a practice session by 7 a.m. And every morning, under the calm and skillful guidance of Army Pfc. Stan...
...interrupted Poggioli's duties at Brown in 1943. "I entered the Army as a private," he said, "and left it as a PFC. They drafted me into the Medical Corps and started me writing an Italian-English dictionary for use of the troops when the war with Italy was nearly over...
...Pfc. G. David Schine, on leave from Army duty in Alaska, and clad in well-tailored mufti, hopped off an airliner at New York's International Airport and was greeted by his erstwhile investigations sidekick, retired McCarthy Aide Roy Cohn, now a Manhattan lawyer. Reporters closed in on the two lads and tried to learn more about their reunion. But just before vanishing with Cohn into the night, Private Schine snapped: "I have stopped speaking to newspapermen...
...luck of a sort that brought Pfc. Ira Hayes to the summit of Mt. Suribachi on the southern edge of battle-torn Iwo Jima as Associated Press Photographer Joe Rosenthal was setting up the dramatic photograph of Hayes, four fellow Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the U.S. flag. Everyone who saw it was stirred by the picture; it brought Rosenthai a Pulitzer Prize, was made into a postage stamp, finally became the model for a monument in Washington to the Marine dead of all wars. For Ira, the picture was a prelude to tragedy...
...Coney Island. Cheerful George Argus, 25, went to work on the Alaskan Railroad during a summer vacation five years ago, liked it, and stayed to take his degree in geology at the University of Alaska. Drafted, he was assigned to the Army Arctic Training Center at Big Delta. Pfc. Argus climbed a lot, but nothing really big until he tried McKinley with three friends, all former fellow students: Elton Thayer, the leader, a McKinley Park ranger and experienced mountaineer; Morton Wood; pilot and homesteader, who had assaulted the peak before, but failed; Pfc. Leslie Viereck of Ladd Air Force Base...