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Thus Lieut. Colonel Felix Hardison, 31-year-old pilot of the Suzy-Q, won his ninth decoration. Staff Sergeant Kenneth Gradle of St. Louis, 2 2-year-old radioman on the plane that flew MacArthur out of the Philippines, received his eighth award, became the U.S.'s most decorated enlisted hero (he already wore the D.F.C. with oak leaf cluster, the silver star with two oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart with one). Sergeant Gradle had flown on 60 missions, more than any other man in the 19th, and shot down six Zeros-more than enough to call himself...
...Pyote Officers' Club. On the stroke of midnight, an officer stepped to the microphone, asked for a moment of silence "as a small tribute to those we left over there"-to men like Captain Harl Pease, Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, Major Dean ("Pinky") Hoevet, Master Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva, Lieut. R. B. Burleson and Captain Colin Kelly. The widows of many men of the igth were present...
Sample stanzas from the original: Said the private to the sergeant, "Don't you think the bugle blew too soon?'" Said the sergeant to the private, "You can sleep till noon." Said the private to the sergeant, "Mother kissed me when I went to bed." Said the sergeant to the private, "I'll kiss you instead." Said the private to the sergeant, "I'll be getting back to camp quite late." Said the sergeant to the private, "I'll sit up and wait...
Born. To Marva Trotter Barrow, 26; and Sergeant Joseph Louis Barrow, 28, World Heavyweight Champion: their first child, a daughter, 7 Ib. 5 oz.; in Chicago...
What food do soldiers like, what do they eat because they have to? To find the answer to this and many another delicate dietetic question, the Army detailed Master Sergeant Horace Scherwin and 50 other enlisted men. In a twelve-month they examined meals served to 2,474,362 men in 500 Army mess halls, measured the contents of countless garbage cans, clocked eating habits. By last week they were able to report that the U.S. soldier...