Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1st Lieutenant...
...Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, it was a time of anguish. He must get the 1st and 9th Submarine Flotillas away from Brest, the 2nd and 10th from Lorient, the 6th and 7th from St. Nazaire. But where could he send them? The only other Biscay bases were La Pallice and Bordeaux, each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed...
...Pittsburgh the American Legionnaires and the members of the Mayor's committee, with little COMMITTEE ribbons stuck in their lapels, stood about uneasily as marines from Pennsylvania spilled off the train. Also at the station, in snappy summer khaki, was Lieut. Mitchell Paige, the 1st Division's famed Congressional Medal winner, who had come home three weeks earlier. The marines spied Paige and formed a circle around...
...1st Division: Major General Clarence R. Huebner, 55, who turned down a West Point appointment to enlist, rose from the ranks. He was a company cook at Fort Logan, Colo, in 1910, climbed to lieutenant colonel commanding an infantry battalion (in the ist Division) in World...
Edgar Bergen, the power behind Puppet Charlie McCarthy, was decorated by order of Sweden's King Gustav V, with the Order of Vasa, 1st Class, for furthering American-Scandinavian relations. He promptly ordered a miniature medal for his meal-ticket...