Dec 22, 2020 · On Aug. 3, Patton encountered Pvt. Charles Kuhl at the 15th Evacuation Hospital outside Nicosia, Sicily. When the general asked Kuhl what he suffered from, the soldier replied, “I guess I just can’t take it.”

May 3, 2023 · Sergeant Maynard Harrison “Snuffy” Smith was not your typical hero. “From the time he entered the Air Force he had been in some kind of trouble over one petty matter or another,” wrote Army Pvt. Andy Rooney, then a Stars and Stripes correspondent.

Stars and Stripes correspondent Andy Rooney was the first to interview Snuffy after the mission. The published account quickly propelled the young man into instant stardom and he was sought out by other correspondents. It was a role that Sergeant Smith accepted, relished, and even played into well.

Jun 29, 2023 · Rooney, best known for his cantankerous personality and cranky commentaries to boot for the CBS television program 60 Minutes, was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941.

Dec 17, 2019 · In the words of 24-year-old Stars and Stripes correspondent Andrew A. Rooney (better known many years later as the curmudgeonly commentator on the TV show 60 Minutes), his fellow airmen saw him as “a moderately pompous little fellow with the belligerent attitude of a man trying to make up with attitude what his five-foot-four, 130-pound body ...

Nov 3, 2015 · After writing one too many stories about troops who had taken off to bomb Germany never to come back, Andy Rooney, along with seven other World War II correspondents, wanted to see the action.

Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooney (January 14, 1919 ?? November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer. He was most notable for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired October 2, 2011.

Andy Rooney, a World War II Public Affairs NCO, has called Soldiers fighting in OIF "economic victims." Andy Rooney is known to millions for his witty television essays, "A Few Minutes with

Feb 18, 2007 · Learn some history of WW II from Pvt Andy Rooney ( of 60 Minutes ) http://www.stripes.com/ww2/rooney.html Sgt Salty

Jan 20, 2016 · Andrew A. Rooney set out from his hometown in the Albany, N.Y., area to nearby Colgate College, ready to play football and have a good time -- until fate, in the form of World War II, intervened....