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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rear admirals), delegates saluted each other with five outstretched fingers, representing five of their old boys who had made good: General George Marshall (V.M.I.), General Douglas MacArthur (Texas M.I.), Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" in Bataan (Northwestern Academy), Pearl Harbor Air Commander Clarence Tinker (Wentworth), Captain Colin Kelly (Marion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boom in Military Schools | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...continues to withstand the Jap's assaults. Two were in a class by themselves: Second Lieutenant Alexander Ramsey ("Sandy") Nininger Jr., posthumously honored with World War II's first Congressional Medal of Honor for "intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty" (TIME, Feb. 9), and Captain Colin P. Kelly (TIME, Dec. 22), who was awarded a posthumous D.S.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MACARTHUR AND HIS MEN | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...money Russ deserves as much credit as Colin Kelly or Buzz Wagner. "Going out in a blaze of glory" has a new meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...bespectacled Colin MacDonald, the London Times's Far Eastern Correspondent, was in Hong Kong en route to Chungking when war broke out. Hong Kong-Chungking air service was interrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Longest Way Round | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...writing this letter as an act of faith in the destiny of our country. . . . My request is that you consider the merits of a young American youth of goodly heritage-Colin P. Kelly, III-for appointment as a Cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point. I make this appeal in behalf of this youth as a token of the Nation's appreciation of the heroic services of his father, who met death in line of duty at the very outset of the struggle which was thrust upon us by the perfidy of a professed friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, HEROES: Cadet Corky Kelly | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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