Italian Boy Mascot
Arms And Legs Lost
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Right
Bert Shepard, one-legged war
veteran, is congratulated by ad
mirers from Walter Reed Army
hospital during the Senators
Brooklyn Dodgers game in Wash
ington. He pitched 4 innings and
got credit for the 4 to 3 win.
Left
Natale Kesic, 13, blond, blue
eyed Italian boy mascot of troops
who brought him aboard ship in
a barracks bag, is surrounded by
his pals at the Boston pier before
he was taken in charge by immi
gration officers. Soldiers said they
found him in a Gtrman POW
camp where he had been 6«nt for
killing a Nazi officer who abused
him.
Bttom
M-Sgt. Frederic Hensel, first
soldier battle casualty in this
war to lose parts of all 4 limbs,
poses with his wife, Jewel, at
Percy Jones hospital, in Battle
Creek, Mich. He lost both legs a
bove the knees, his left arm above
the elbow and his right hand. He
was wounded when he stepped on
an anti-tank mine on Okinawa.
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