HEROES: The Happy Busboy

Comrade Molotov, the Mayor of Broadway, was the kind of soldier who could make an officer jump up & down with rage and then pin a medal on him. There was hardly a dogface in the 9th Division who didn't know him or hadn't heard of him. Few knew that he got his mail addressed to Pvt. Karl C. Warner. None knew that his real name was Karl Petusky.

The 26-year-old infantryman was a gay and awesome fighter in the lines. In North Africa he once put on a one-man show that resulted in the capture of almost 600 Italians....

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