"He was a clean-cut, handsome, light-complexioned man—not large, but well built. [...] No matter how filthy and dirty everyone was on the battlefield, Hillbilly's face always had a clean, fresh appearance. He was physically tough and hard and obviously morally strong. He sweated as much as any man but somehow seemed to stand above our foul and repulsive living conditions in the field."
Eugene Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"When everybody else was sweating and filthy, Hillbilly always looked fresh scrubbed. None of us knew how he did it."
RV Burgin, Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
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