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Corporal Francine Marr distinguished herself for gallantry

It goes on to describe how she had crawled beneath the tank And then it talks about the day she ounded in action and “Despite her own severe wounds, and with indifference to the enemy fire directed at her, Corporal Marr continued to treat injured soldiers”

This last part baffles Frangie She has a vagueto close a man’s stomach wound after she’d been injured, but the citation makes it seem she’d done more than that Apparently she had treated three soldiers, saving one fro to her injuries and being evacuated

“Well,” Frangie says to no one but a horse standing in the field “I wonder what Harder will make of this?”

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RAINY SCHULTERMAN—NAPLES, ITALY

Colonel Jon Herkemeier comes to see her every day Soiven her all to herself She has a balcony wide enough to acco, Rainy likes to be out of doors Today, however, will not be an al fresco day It is raining steadily and, like everyone else who thought Italy was alar since been disabused of that notion

Rainy’s quarters are as luxurious as a five-star hotel The roos There are oil portraits on the wall,various Italian notables in Renaissance tights and early-nineteenth-century uniforht her eye, a portrait of a thirtyisheyes and an expression that suggests he is inclined to be a a witty remark and will deliver it just as soon as the artist leaves hienuine Antonello da Messina, not an artist Rainy has heard of, but evidently somewhat famous

She has taken to talking to the portrait at times when she needs distraction She calls the man Pip, for no real reason except that he looks like a Pip, and she enjoys saying the ith its two percussive Ps

“Well, Pip, I don’t think I like the weather in your country Say what? With a name like Rainy I should love this weather? Say what, old Pip?”

She has been given no duties, she is on R and R, rest and recuperation Military Intelligence has better facilities for such things than regular GIs would get—no villas for regular GIs, and there was a tiht have bothered her, but she doesn’t have the energy for fairness Her days are spent reading books froh Machiavelli’s The Prince, an Italian translation of The Great Gatsby, and inal Italian

When not reading books she reads and rereads letters from home with all their worry about her and all their relief that she is well Aryeh has evenbetween the lines, Rainy fears he is having a hard slog in the Pacific Curse words have started to slip into his speech, and snide remarks about “our lords and masters with the stars on their shoulders”

She has the freedoer swollen, but her bruises are still in evidence, and while she is recovering her strength, she tires easily and walks hunched like an old wooes up- or downstairs Her hair is just starting to grow back in Her appearance causes people to stop working and stare after her with sober, concerned expressions

So she ht to her there Breakfast with Pip Lunch with Herkemeier Suppers with Pip and a book Day after day

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