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MAURICE "SLEEPY" LINTON  - He loved to fight, but was known to catch a minute of sleep at every opportunity, and thus he acquired the nickname "Sleepy." Many men didn't know him as Maurice at all.  After the war, he got out of the Army, didn't like the civilian life, and then in June 1948 went back into the 82nd Airborne, He served a tour of duty in Korea, and then when the 101st Airborne Division was reactivated, he served three years in the 325th Engineer Bn. After a tour of Germany, he returned to Fort Bragg, NC.

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