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