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Everybody in Spartanburg County was certain that 24-year-old Gene Atkins would be a success and a great credit to the community. Wrote the ladies of the Cross Anchor Methodist Church: "It is men like you, Pfc. Atkins, that makes this America of ours the wonderful place...
...pride and embarrassment this autumn when a local boy named Thomas Eugene Atkins came home a hero. Few soldiers of World War II had fought more gallantly-with his hip shattered by a bullet, the rest of his platoon dead around him in the Luzon jungles, quiet, steady-eyed Pfc. Gene Atkins had kept "taking a sight" on Jap attackers, had killed 44 of them. He had been flown home on a bomber to meet the President and get the Congressional Medal of Honor. But when he got back to Spartanburg, the hero had to be viewed in exceedingly unheroic...
...Tinian he and Pfc. Al Shirley, of Los Angeles, made an unauthorized patrol ahead of advancing tanks to defuse land mines. They captured a machine gun, turned it on the enemy and killed 19. Pfc. Shirley used a whole clip from a Browning automatic rifle to knock down a Jap before the machine gun was taken. For such waste, Sergeant Smith gave him a good dressing-down...
...yesterday, in a crummy, crowded room at Etampes, France, Pfc. Joe Weston, A.U.S., listened to a bored speech by a bored 2nd lieutenant, finally got a brown manila envelope full of papers and heard himself called Mister Weston for the first time in 40 months...
...Mutual microphone stepped Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, to help auction off four pairs of Nylons, a Persian lamb coat, a bat autographed by Babe Ruth. They were some of the sideline booty (besides $105.000) which a sympathetic U.S. public has showered on Pfc. James Wilson, who lost both hands & feet in a plane crash. Private Wilson wanted to sell off his presents to give the proceeds to a hospital pal - a triple amputee...