Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the President awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for heroism, to six of them. Two of the heroes, both marines, were dead. Their mothers came to the White House in their place. From El Paso came Mrs. C. Jane Hawkins, whose son, Lieut. William D. Hawkins, after being wounded on Betio Island, had fought on for hours-to die from Jap gunfire. From Worcester, Mass, came Mrs. George F. Power, whose son, Lieut. John V. Power, died outside a Jap pillbox on Namur Island, holding his left hand to a stomach wound...
Monty got new honors the same day: the rank of Field Marshal, conferred by King George VI. The award set up a new cacophony of confusion: did Monty's crown and laurel wreath outrank...
...Department recently put out a circular awarding the Combat Infantryman Badge to all (frontline) infantry units for exemplary action in combat. Officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Medical Department and Corps of Chaplains were not considered eligible for the award...
Brusque Admiral Hennecke looked superciliously down his hawk's nose. His morale had just been boosted by award of the Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross. "Hennecke performed a feat unique in the history of coastal defense," read his radioed citation. "He carried out an exemplary destruction of the port of Cherbourg...
Company One will award Bill Cousins a G.B. degree for his outstanding performances at calisthenics...