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...PFC. ANDREW GAMBARDELLA...
...foxholes dotting the perimeter guarding the Army's 25th Division near Masan, Korea last August, a thin, hollow-eyed G.I. sat intently watching the dark no man's land ahead. He was Pfc. William Thompson of M Company. His buddies in the 25th's all-Negro 24th Regiment knew him as a professional type-always quiet, never talkative about his past. There wasn't much Private Thompson wanted to tell. Born out of wedlock, he had been brought up by his grandmother in New York City tenements, had finally run away and been taken into...
Last week the Army announced the names of eleven more heroes of the Korean war, who had received posthumous awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor beyond the call of duty. Among them was Pfc. Willie Thompson, the first Negro to win the nation's highest military honor since the Spanish-American...
...only three days before. The Chinese fled when a U.S. tank patrol passed through the town. They left their prisoners a bundle of leaflets to be spread among the U.S. troops. "Those people actually believe that we're being oppressed by what they call capitalists and warmongers," said Pfc. Paul Phillips. Said Staff Sergeant Charlie Harrison, who had spent 3½ years of World War II in a Japanese prison camp, "I think I know better than most how sweet free air tastes. I'm not yelling uncle, but two times as a P.O.W. are too much...
...PFC. BARTON L. BENDER...