Word: rizzitello
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Vincent Rizzitello, a small, wiry, 26-year-old combat infantryman from Newark, N.J., was at Fort Dix, a replacement center near Trenton, N.J. What victory in Europe mostly meant to him was that he would probably be seeing something of the Pacific...
...Rizzitello had fought in Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. He wore a Purple Heart, a Presidential unit citation (the 3rd Division's), battle stars for six campaigns. On his furlough to the U.S. this spring he had taken a wife; he had made his farewell the day he went to Dix to get on with...
...plus four, Pfc. Rizzitello got a series of pleasant surprises. A Fort Dix clerk had figured Rizzitello's discharge credits under the Army's scoring plan announced last week. Infantryman Rizzitello had been in the Army 56 months-that was 56 points; he had been overseas 32 months-that was 32 more; he had 40 points for his battle stars and decorations. He had a total of 128 points and he had won discharge from the service...
...Rizzitello collected his mustering-out pay, turned in all his gear except one complete uniform. Finally he stood before a colonel who handed him a paper, shook his hand, said: "Good luck, Rizzitello." Mr. Rizzitello blinked, said "Thank you, sir," out of long habit, made a snappy salute and went home to his bride, a suit of civvies, and his plans to "get into the chicken business...
...Secret. Mr. Rizzitello and some 2,500 other combat veterans who were in the U.S. on furloughs from the Pacific and European theaters were the lucky ones who caught demobilization on the first R-day. They were the easiest cases in the Army's program for releasing 2,000,000 soldiers in the next twelve months of successive R-(for redeployment) days...