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...case history of shy and mild-mannered Cook is that he was a Mirror copyboy, who lived at 26 Oliver St. with his mother, liked to dance and have fun, got excited about the motion picture Sergeant York, and came into the office on Dec. 8, 1941, and said...
...marines'll make a man of you,' we kidded him. And somebody else added, 'But you'll never be a Sergeant York, Cookie...
...bets on that Sergeant York stuff...
Technical Sergeant Anton Budgen leaned down from the gun turret above me, and then he nicked a switch, turning on the interphone system. "Andy, there's two pursuits on our left and above us," said Lyle Winchell, our rear gunner. "Okay, Okay," said Pilot V. M. Anders. "Keep your...
Connecticut-born Sergeant O'Connell writes his verse when most soldiers are asleep. In the stifling heat of a rear base in Papua, he dictates by muffled flashlight to 23-year-old Private Stephen J. Haretik of Cleveland. Sergeant O'Connell's theory: "In this war there is too much written about Zeros shot down and cruisers sunk and not enough about what soldiers think. We've glamorized, a thousand men, but after the thousandth hero the soldier isn't anything to write about; except to his intimates, nothing even to think about...