Elvis gets the GI blues

Torn, punched with holes, creased, wrinkled and showing loss at the folds, an ‘Organizational Clothing and Equipment Record’ used at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1958 would not at first sight seem an attractive proposition.

But one of the names it bears, mis-spelled by an unidentified army officer, is that of one ‘Presle…

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