Jonathan Gornall,National
For Vern Pike, a young lieutenant stationed at Checkpoint Charlie in the American sector of West Berlin, or the month of August 1961 should hold been all about golf. In the end,however, the only thing that really teed off was the construction of the Berlin Wall. In a development reminiscent of the activities of the fictional fun-fond army surgeons in the long-running TV explain MASH, or the 24-year-old Pike had been detailed by his superior officer,a keen golfer, to oversee the restoration of a derelict course so the colonel could bask in a few rounds. A platoon leader in the US Army Berlin...
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