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When he slept Frossia watched him helplessly. "She stood, observing the grimy sunken cheeks, the matted hair, the black-rimmed nails, the bony, bared chest. She got hold of one emaciated hand, brought her ear closer to his face, called his name, but he did not hear her. His blackened mouth continued moving. She bent down and heard a child's broken, muted patter-the young man on Anna's sofa was back in the nursery, afraid of dark corners and curtained windows, and, listening, Frossia was ashamed of her earlier hardness...
...private first class who went A.W.O.L. two days after landing in Britain. Gradually he acquired (by stealing) a complete officer's outfit, including captain's bars, gloves, an A.G.O. card. He wore Eagle Squadron wings as well as U.S. wings, and the ribbons that blazed from his chest included the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with three clusters and the British Distinguished Flying Medal...
...Arkansas, later was an end for the Detroit Lions. Last week he was in Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, recuperating from the loss of his right arm, shot off at Anzio two months ago. His medal was won in another Italian action last November. Despite many wounds in his side, chest, face and hands, Footsy Britt advanced with eight men, personally killed five Germans, wiped out a machine-gun nest, fired five clips (75 rounds) of carbine ammunition, more rifle ammunition, threw 32 grenades...
...Navy's destroyers get a lot of the dirty work and seldom get much glory. But honors rained down on one destroyer last week. She received a Presidential unit citation and her skipper, handsome, ruddy Commander Donald J. MacDonald had a seventh medal pinned upon his chest. It made him the most decorated U.S. naval officer of this...
...marine had a wound of the lower chest in which a bullet was deflected through the liver, shattered the right kidney, went through the fourth lumbar vertebra (lower back) and left a large wound in the right flank. He was given plasma at the front line and on the way to the field hospital. But when he arrived at the hospital he was almost dead. A four-way infusion was begun. In two and a half hours, the marine got twelve units of plasma, eleven pints of blood, 1,000 cc of saline and glucose. That stabilized his blood pressure...