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...year-old rifleman was a mass of twitching nerves. By Army medical standards, he was a plain NP (neuropsychiatric) case. But by G.I. standards he was a very brave soldier. He doggedly slogged his way through three months of bloody action. By the time he finally collapsed in an Army hospital, he was ready to tell his sorry story of shyness, nervousness, worry. Why had he been such a good soldier? "I forced myself to carry on. All my life I obeyed. I couldn't bring myself to disobey...
...schedule for the 25 remaining performances promised none of the oldtime greats - like Bruno Walter, Lotte Lehmann, Max Reinhardt and Adolf Busch. Instead there would be Czech conductor Felix Prohaska; Rosl Schwaiger, s promising and pretty young blond Salzburg soprano; and Pfc. Gilbert Winkler, a 20-year-old calvary rifleman from New Jersey with piano talent. The only opera on this year's program is Mozart's II Seraglio; it is the only one that the Salzburgers could fit out fit a complete set of scenery...
Then the 82nd went to England, to prepare for the biggest test of all. With the 101st and the British 6th, its men spearheaded the invasion of France. Casualties were heavy. Many a rifleman of the 82nd died in the ditches and orchards of Normandy. But the outfit secured its area, broke through, crossed the Douve and led the drive which sealed off Cherbourg, later taken by the 79th ("Lorraine"), the 4th ("Ivy") and the gth-all infantry divisions...
...Ground Forces and a veteran infantryman who has six medals and four campaign ribbons but rarely wears any, admitted that there was "just one medal" he would like to wear. "I have never been able to get it," he said. "I envy the infantrymen who have. . . ." The medal: Expert Rifleman...
Surgeons who later heard the rifleman's story almost invariably remarked, "Well, I'll be damned." One of them wrote a commendation for Private Kinman's presence of mind, resourcefulness and skill...