Word: croix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order you to do anything I wouldn't do myself." As a young officer, Simpson served the usual tours of duty- Mexican border, Texas, the Philippines. He fought in World War I, was awarded the D.S.M., the Sil ver Star, the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de guerre. In 1925 he was graduated with distinction from the Command and General Staff School. In 1938 he was appointed the War College's chief of G-2 (Intelligence). In 1942 he commanded the XII Corps, the next year the Fourth Army...
...Picture Bureau before the war, holds the Legion of Merit... Writer Hugh Fosburgh (now 2nd Lieut. Fosburgh) has the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters...and Captain David Walter Allard of our Cleveland staff has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart and the Croix de guerre with palm for "extraordinary heroism in action." (Allard volunteered to swim the Seine under heavy fire to scout out German positions - was wounded getting back - "despite great pain gave detailed accounts of the enemy disposition that contributed greatly to the success of the crossing...
Nine young French Canadians came home last week, modestly bearing two medals apiece: the Croix de guerre and a "resistance cross." These boys had seen action in Europe long before most of their countrymen...
Four months later, Pfc. Whitehouse was shipped off to Newfoundland. He found it a bleak and lonely post, particularly in spring and summer. To while away the dull evenings, he wrote long letters to Rose. Then one day he met Nurse Theresa St. Croix: "I just met her and had a few dates and that was that...
Early this year Nurse St. Croix gave birth to a baby girl. Private Whitehouse had no hesitation about stepping forward and admitting his responsibility. He talked the matter over calmly with the baby's mother and reported: "She didn't want the baby and she didn't want me." He wrote to Rose, telling her the whole story. Rose did not reply. It took several months in a Newfoundland court, but Nurse St. Croix gladly signed the papers which made Arthur the baby's sole legal guardian. The preoccupied U.S. Army gave Private Whitehouse...