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Cliff Gates, a lean, six-foot Tennessean, became a Marine lieutenant in 1917. In France, he fought through Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, Soissons and the Argonne Forest. Once, pinned in a pocket with only two men left alive in his company, he held off the Germans until fresh forces arrived. He had so many close calls that fellow officers named him "Lucky" Cates. Even so, he was wounded six times and gassed once, came home with a Navy Cross, a D.S.C. (with oak leaf cluster), a Croix de Guerre (with two palms and a gold star...
Died. Lieut. General James Guthrie Harbord, 81, World War I hero (he rose from the ranks to become Pershing's chief of staff, commanded the Marine Brigade of the 2nd Division in the desperate fighting at Belleau Woods and Chateau-Thierry), onetime president and board chairman of Radio Corp. of America; of coronary thrombosis...
...Sumter]." He had blocked all Southern conciliation attempts, had succeeded in starting the War Between the States and then laying the blame on the South. But, sputtered Dr. Tansill, the South should not even now think of its "struggle for freedom" as a "lost cause." "The glorious Confederate flag . . . Belleau Wood . . . Patton's crusaders . . , never be furled...
...Gave the nation's thanks and Presidential citations for "extraordinary heroism" to the men of eight aircraft carriers - the Belleau Wood, Bunker Hill, Cabot, Essex, Hornet, Lexington, San Jacinto and Yorktown...
Died. Rear Admiral James Duncan MacNair (retired), 71, senior ranking Navy Chaplain, holder of the Navy Cross for heroism under fire (with U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood in World War I); after long illness; in Brookline...