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Word: pozorrubio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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...boys in the division's 152nd Field Artillery Battalion called their friend "Little Joe from Pozorrubio." Little Joe stuck with them through six months of combat. But when the 43rd moved on to occupation duty in Japan, José went sadly back to work in the rice paddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Little Joe | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...small. The Japanese put him into a forced labor camp, cutting wood for charcoal. One day, 17-year-old José slipped away from a work gang, swam across a river and hid in the bamboo grass, waiting, so "I will be the one in Pozorrubio to find the Americans." Three G.I.s took him to headquarters, and after that, "I walk all around and show where is Jap guns, there, and there and every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Little Joe | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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