Word: croix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Craig has been awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm for exceptionally meritorious service in France. Captain Spence was the youngest Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army during the war. Captain Wogan comes to the University with a brilliant war record. All of these men play polo, and are interested in the development of the game among students at Harvard...
Lieutenant Casale, one of France's most famous aces, decorated with the Military Medal, the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre, fought unharmed through the great war from May, 1915, when he obtained his pilot's certificate. Piloting a commercial airplane on a prosaic civilian task, his plane got out of control and fell into a wood near the village Dameraucourt near Beauvais. Casale was crushed and killed. His mechanician escaped without injury...
...Fish left the New York Legislature to lead a company of Colored Infantry to the Battle of Champagne. He returned with a croix de guerre; went into the insurance business; married Grace, daughter of Alfred Chapin, former Democratic mayor of Brooklyn; was elected to Congress. He it was who introduced the bill into Congress to honor " The Unknown Soldier...
...went on fighting. This cost him nine months in the hospital. He has 105 German planes to his credit, of which 83 were confirmed: 43 shot down and destroyed, 40 forced down within the Allied lines. He was decorated with the Legion d'Honneur, the Medaille Militaire, Croix de Guerre with 30 palms and two etoiles, besides many foreign decorations...
...commissioned and sailed for France in August, 1918, moving directly to the front on his arrival there. After a week of active service, he was promoted to Regimental Intelligence Officers, in which capacity he made several patrols that often took him right into the German lines. He received the Croix de Guerre from General Petain, and he was twice cited for heroism, once by General Pershing and once by General Kuhn...