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WI outstanding officers or NCOs of WWII, who then retired & moved on with their civilian lives afterwards, actually stayed on in the military ? I mean guys like Dick Winters of BAND OF BROTHERS fame, Pappy Boyington, Evans Carlson, Merritt Edson, Vernon baker (the only living black MOH winner of WWII), Edward Carter (another belated black MOH winner of WWII & also a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Bde in the Spanish CW) Stan Hollis (the only VC winner on D-Day), or Charles Upham (NZ's double VC winner of WWII). What other powerful impact could these outstanding leaders in combat- esp the 1s plucked from civvy street- have had subsequently, esp in conflicts like Korea & Vietnam ?
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