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...following is an excerpt from a letter , me by my former Harvard roommate, Pfc. M. Donald Coleman...
...PFC.) LEW CUNNINGHAM...
...eleven days the hamlet of Geetingsville,Ind. had offered prayers for Pfc. Robert A. Colby, sentenced to death in Germany after an Army court martial (TIME, Sept. 10). Last week Geetingsville heard what Bobby Colby had done. At Eisleben he had gone AWOL to find a drink, had been given four days' extra labor as punishment. That night he had taken a rifle, shot and killed his company commander and a passing lieutenant...
Just Pals. In Davenport, Iowa, Pfc. Kenneth J. Schneider and Pfc. Edwin R. Gould, who were inducted together, went overseas on the same ship, were captured at the same time, stayed in the same prison camp, were liberated on the same day, returned to the U.S. on the same ship, arrived home on the same train, finally were discharged at the same time with the same number of points...
...handful of radar stations were in operation. But only a handful of men knew how to run them. One man who did, Pfc. Joseph L. Lockard, was sitting at one on that fateful Sunday morning and spotted a large formation of planes. He notified Air Forces Lieut. Kermit Tyler, sole officer at the Information Center, who was there for training. Tyler thought Pfc. Lockard's planes were probably a flight of B-17s, due to arrive from the West Coast. "Forget it," said Lieut. Tyler, in effect. Said the Army Board: "By his assumption of authority he [Tyler] took...