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Show THE TYPICAL YANK FIGHTER Sergeant William Mettlen, Omaha, Stacks Up With All the Required Dimensions. How would you look If a slacker back In the States had taken your job ana maimed your girl? No, that didn't happen to Sergeant William Mettlen of Omaha, Oma-ha, Neb., but he was told to imagine im-agine that It did while signal corps p hotog raphers were taking his picture to represent repre-sent the "typical American fighting man." The pho- mini. i in tographers, on an official mission from the government, scratched their heads a long while before they thought of anything that would make him look fierce enough. If you want to be "typical" you will have to stack up as follows : Height, 5 feet 10 inches; weight, 160 pounds; hair, light brown, and eyes, blue. Mettlen's other specifications are that he enlisted when nineteen years old, while still a freshman at Nebraska university uni-versity ; that he was cited four times for bravery ; that he Is as active In the American Legion now as he was In the Sixteenth infantry then, and that, in addition to being a typical American, he Is Scotch-Irish. |