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...Lady. In Atlantic City, WAC Pfc. (Mrs.) Birdie Hyland reported back three days early from a Boston furlough, badly needing to rest up after a meeting with her son Robert, a corporal, also on leave...
...they stood at attention, freshly shaved, in clean uniforms, stepping for ward precisely as their names were called: Staff Sergeant Jessie R. Drowley, of Luzerne, Mich., Pfc. William J. Johnston of Colchester, Conn., Technical Sergeant Forrest L. Vosler, of Livonia, N.Y., Lieut. Arnold L. Bjorklund of Seattle, Wash...
...pfc., a messenger, has come in. He takes one look at the tall lieutenant and suddenly he is holding a bottle of cognac toward the officer. The officer carefully pours a tiny glassful, drinks, and hands the glass and bottle first to the pfc., then to me. As I drink, I hear the first version of a question which I am to hear many times in the next few days: "What in goddamned hell are you doing here?'' I say I have come up for dinner and he says: "Dinner!" Another shellburst leaves nothing to be added...
...felt, rather than saw, another man enter the room. For a moment, he did not sit. He stood, swaying and staring about the room. The pfc., the sergeant, the three lieutenants and I stared back at him. The lieutenant who had lost the armored cars was pouring another drink of cognac. The captain saw him. He said: "Well, I see you're all right. Lose...
...Married. Pfc. Alton W. Knappen-berger, 20, Nazi-slaying "one man army of Anzio"; and Ruth Eickhoff, 16, his home town sweetheart; in Red Hill, Pa. The Congressional Medal of Honor winner was told to "speak up" when applying for the license, later delayed the marriage ceremony by forgetting the document, had to run back...