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...Philadelphia, with 46 missions over Europe, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with Six Oak Leaf Clusters to his credit; Lehon I. Twarog of New Bedford, Mass, with greatest time in service of the group, including two and a half years in the South Pacific; and Arleigh A. Tison '49 of Shreveport, La., recipient of a Purple Heart for wounds in action...
...Captain Arleigh Albert Burke, U.S.N., had a new job: Chief of Staff of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's superpowerful Task Force 58, and there was not a Navy man in the Pacific to say he did not deserve the job. At 42, the king of the "cans" had become a legend...
Thanksgiving Day, between midnight and dawn, a scouting U.S. destroyer force intercepted six Jap light cruisers or de stroyers in the waters northwest of Bougainville. Two of the surprised enemy were quickly dispatched by torpedoes. The remainder turned stern in a welter of American shellfire. Hard-driving Captain Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke...