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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Think Ernie Pyle should win your award and all that goes with...
...Japs were grateful to Wang. Last week the Japanese Government ordered a state funeral for him. Emperor Hirohito posthumously conferred on Wang the Collar of the Chrysanthemum, Japan's highest award to the head of a foreign state. Adolf Hitler, or someone acting for him, cabled condolences to Madame Wang...
Erlanger, Gasser and Nerves. Drs. Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Spencer Gasser split the 1944 award ($29,059.08) for demonstrating how nerve fibers react to electrical impulses...
Last week, arriving in the U.S. from Saipan, where he was chief of staff of the 2nd Marine Division, Colonel Shoup learned that his "indomitable fighting spirit" at Tarawa had won him another award: the Congressional Medal of Honor. His citation: "Colonel Shoup fearlessly exposed himself to the terrific, relentless artillery, machine-gun and rifle fire . . . rallying his hesitant troops . . . gallantly led them across the fringing reefs ... to reinforce our hard-pressed, thinly held lines. Upon arrival at the shore he assumed command of all landed troops and, working without rest under constant, withering enemy fire during the next...
...Lord Lyell, 30, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for valor in North Africa last year. Lord Lyell lived as a Scottish laird, died in a bayonet grapple inside a German gun pit. He was the first peer to win Britain's highest award in World War II, the fifth ever...