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...potatoes in a frying pan and Phil talked about the war: about K rations and the time he rode a German motorcycle to get some ammunition. Mrs. Small turned the eggs over. "It don't seem hardly possible that you got over there and got back," she said. Pfc. Small sat on a stool and put his feet on the stove rail. "There's nothing to it," he explained. "They fire some shots at you and you lie down and fire some shots back...
Then one of the battalions, its ranks refilled with battle-green replacements, tried again. Once again a hail of Jap fire pinned the troops to the ground. But this time one soldier just kept walking and throwing hand grenades at every Jap he saw. He was Pfc. Clarence B. Craft, a sandy-haired 23-year-old from Santa Ana, Calif., eight months in the Army and brand-new to combat...
Carry On. On Okinawa, Pfc. David Ward of Miami took time out from soldiering to help a native woman give birth to a son, was rewarded with two eggs...
...Indianapolis veterans struck a common-sense common chord: the returned overseas soldier is no nerve-shattered civilian-hater who will explode into violent action if he does not get all he thinks he deserves. Said big (210 Ibs.) 39-year-old ex-Pfc. Carl Emory Rainwater, veteran of three European invasions: "Listen, you turn the fellows loose in the community and in a couple of weeks you wouldn't know that they'd been in the Army." Said a 25-year-old ex-corporal, now a garage mechanic: "Most of the fellows are like me. Just...
...Never Thought . . ." Riding in one of the cars, Pfc. Joe L. Vaughan of Greenville, S.C. mumbled abashedly to Sergeant Olan E. Robertson of Tallapoosa, Ga. (who has seen 52 months of service): "I never thought I'd come back at all . . . . I'll never forget this...