Word: sergeanting
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...half filled the small, bare University of Hawaii's auditorium. His audience had gathered at the Army's request. Though most Hawaiian Japanese speak English, many of these did not. So they sat stiffly in straight-backed chairs, listening uncomprehendingly. Then up to the platform stepped Staff Sergeant Howard Hiroki, veteran of the South Pacific, to interpret the officer's words. Sixteen Japanese-Americans in the audience stood up. To each of them was given a Purple Heart, as wife, sweetheart or next-of-kin of a Japanese-American boy killed in Italy...
...often less than useful. All joined up after a Presidential call for volunteers "for a dangerous and hazardous mission." From the jungle training bases of Trinidad and the Canal Zone, from Guadalcanal and New Georgia came many a veteran Regular Army man itching for action. Some old-timers like Sergeant John Russell of Hammond, La., ex-Marine who wears the Navy Cross he won in Nicaragua. Others were the young, unmarried zealots who usually make fine soldiers...
Technical Sergeant Charles E. Kelly, a thin-faced, 23-year-old redhead from Pittsburgh, is one of seven brothers, all in service. He has seen 70 days of active combat in Italy, suffered no wound worse than a scraped nose and some minor cuts on his hands from shell fragments.* He fought at Salerno, San Pietro, Cassino...
...platoon sergeant he led men across the blood-dyed Rapido River three times, and three times had to pull back before overwhelming enemy strength. In combat reports Kelly is officially credited with killing at least 40 Germans. Admiring fellow infantrymen rib him as "Commando" Kelly, or "The One-Man Army...
...officers' quarters and called out Captain Aubrey G. Serfling. When the astonished captain appeared, Swancutt shot him in the belly, then dashed through the camp, still firing. Serfling later died. Swancutt pinked Corporal Robert Sampson, leaped into a staff car, waved his .45 at Sergeant John E. Roberts and made the sergeant drive him down the dark road...