Word: sapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left college and joined the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor. He shipped overseas, worked as an engineer in England and along the famed Red Ball Express through France, and got safely through the war. Three weeks after V-E Day, in May 1945, Magee was on duty as a sapper, clearing out old minefields near Bremerhaven. An unexploded mine went off, killing him instantly...
...Reds reversed themselves last week after three months of refusing to yield up R.A.F. Pilot John Driver and Sapper John Bennett (TIME, Nov. 27), unless the British surrendered Russian Lieut. Alexandre Bystrov. Without explanation, Driver and Bennett, who had accidentally fallen into Russian hands, were released at Autobahn checkpoints. Driver headed back to Britain; Bennett rejoined his unit. Bystrov, a political refugee, stayed, safe in the British zone...