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...Sergeant John A. Pittman, 22, Company C, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, a farmer's son from backwoods Talulla, Miss. On November 26, near Hamhung, Sergeant Pittman volunteered to lead his squad in a counterattack against an enemy-held hill. The Chinese poured down mortar fire, burp guns began their deadly whinny. Pittman went down with a mortar-fragment wound, got up, pushed doggedly forward. A grenade landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl...
...bewhiskered, dust-covered 2nd Lieutenant Davis U. Merwin '50 of the Marine Corps about two weeks ago. He's a platoon leader out here and has been on the front almost continuously for a couple of months. Has the most dangerous job there is, I guess. Before I know he was here, I witnessed a Marine assault on hill under fire and wrote a piece on it. Later, I found that he had led that assault...
Army Career: Commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry after graduation, and sent to 30th Infantry in Philippines. Later in the Philippines, he became so highly regarded for his staff work that he never thereafter had a combat field command of his own. A captain when the U.S. entered World War I, he served as chief of operations of the First Army, then chief of staff of the VIII Army Corps in France. His best-known feat in World War I: planning the covert movement of 500,000 U.S. troops and 2,700 guns from St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Argonne...
Cincinnati (Ramsdell) 6, St. Louis 3 (2nd...
Detroit (Gray) 5, St. Louis 3 (2nd...