mister Ed

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greatestgeneration:

A member of the original Filthy Thirteen, a group of 101st Airborne paratroopers that would eventually loosely inspire the movie The Dirty Dozen.

Read Jack Agnew’s obituary in the LA Times or read the book.

More info here, here, and here.

A quote from one of the members:

We never washed a piece of clothing. We never shined any shoes or boots, and we didn’t salute officers. We didn’t go for any of that malarky, you know?…I was the biggest goof off the Army ever saw.

Hey, whatever gets the job done!

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