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...Newman had joined the army at 18, served two years at Fort Sill. Okla.; he went to Manila in 1940. Captured on Bataan, he had shrunk from 145 pounds to 92 by the time Cabanatuan was liberated in January. Army doctors fought to save what the Japanese had left of Jim Newman-one of the saddest cases they had seen of starvation, beri beri, tuberculosis. Other survivors of the prison camps gained weight and strength; Jim Newman did not. A fortnight ago the doctors gave up. flew him home to Fort Worth. He would die, they said...
...Lawton, Okla., ex-Marine Bennett Savage, wounded on Bougainville, ran the Oklahoma Club, a night spot whose best customers were soldiers from nearby Fort Sill. Proprietor Savage needed no G.I. loan. He invested $12,000 he had made in similar, prewar ventures. His future: "I'll stick as long as the business is good...
Corporal J. F. Brennan and Pfc. Stan Sill ran into the spider web. When they got home to the Anzio beachhead, they were still mad enough to write a letter to the editor - in this case, the editor of the Stars and Stripes...
...committed the same heinous crime. They were fed on C rations during this time, given a pro-(that's funny to us) and finally taken back to the rest center in time to catch their return boat under armed guard." Concluded Corporal Brennan and Pri vate Sill with restrained wrath: "Do re sponsible authorities ever realize the effect an incident like this has on the morale of troops at the front...
Father (Frederick H.) Sill, founder and headmaster emeritus of Connecticut's Kent School, celebrated his 70th birthday reading congratulatory letters from alumni to their beloved "Pater," wore as usual the monastic habit (called by the schoolboys "the great white tent") of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross...