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...Pfc. Vincent Rizzitello, a small, wiry, 26-year-old combat infantryman from Newark, N.J., was at Fort Dix, a replacement center near Trenton, N.J. What victory in Europe mostly meant to him was that he would probably be seeing something of the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: For Enlisted Men Only | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...Midland Park, N.J., Pfc. Wilson Ackerman's parents got a letter from their son, with some news and a request: he had landed with the 6th Marine Division on a Pacific island named Okinawa; if the newspapers carried anything about it, would they send him the clipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: One for the Scrapbook | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...Wrote Pfc. Felix J. Murphy Jr. of Bellaire, L.I.: "It still does not seem possible that so much hell could have been all in one place. Someone's prayers were answered, also mine, because I came out. . . . I don't really think I was afraid to die, but I was afraid of something. . . . I felt that when God wanted me he would take me, so I just kept on praying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith Under Fire | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...PFC.) JOHN W. LAMESFIELD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Fairy Tale | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

General Dwight D. Eisenhower met up with a fellow Kansan, Pfc. Rolla Ummel, somewhere in France, asked him what he had done before the war. When Ummel answered that he had been a farmer, the General asked: "How about giving me a job after the war?" Said the private cautiously: "I don't know, sir, but I'll keep you in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fresh Start | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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