Word: commendatione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the director of market research for a large airplane manufacturer: ". . . Giving cohesive purpose to an editorial objective that must encompass not only many moods in one nation, but a host of tradition-based attitudes in other countries, is a difficult task. Your approach to the problem deserves commendation and...
"A man I knew who made 20-odd trips with an ammunition-carrying LCI from Bizerte to Sicily, and who later was blown to bits at Salerno, received a posthumous commendation from the Secretary of the Navy. .. . But I rode up on the train from Washington not long ago with...
The way to see most is not to look too long. So believes Ohio State's Professor Samuel Renshaw, who recently won his university a Navy "Mark of Commendation" for training soldiers and sailors to do their looking fast.
Then the Eighth went south to clean up what was left of the Philippines. In 44 days it made six major and 24 minor landings. Eichelberger was all over the place, sleeping among his soldiers on the ground - once, so close to a Jap airfield that the racket of enemy...
Captain Vincent Astor, peacetime yachtsman (the Nourmahal), was awarded the Navy Commendation Ribbon in Manhattan for "meritorious performance . . . initiative, unflagging energy and devotion" to administrative duties with the Confidential Fishing Vessel Observers, who watched for subs while fishing along the Atlantic Coast.