Word: croix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan importer and onetime vice consul in Tunis (1941-42); by his own hand (gunshot); in Brooklyn. In North Africa, as assistant to Robert D. Murphy, then counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Vichy, Woodruff worked in the undercover preparations for the U.S. invasion, won the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre and U.S. Medal for Merit...
...soldier when he was in short pants. Graduated from V.M.I, a 2nd lieutenant in 1917, led a platoon, then a company of the 5th Marines at Belleau Wood and St. Mihiel, came out with three wounds and a reputation for tenacity and courage (D.S.C., Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, Croix de Guerre). Returned from occupation duty in 1919 marked out for command, put in the standard series of tours prescribed for rising young officers: aide to the commandant, to President Harding, sea duty, foreign duty (China and Haiti), staff schools, C.O. of the President's guard at Warm Springs...
Down from the north came Task Force i, commanded by the crack French horseman, Colonel Christian de la Croix de Castries. While the armor kept to the road, Moroccans, Foreign Legionnaires and Chasseurs flushed out the valley heights, routing one Communist headquarters. Up from the south came Task Force 2, commanded by handsome, music-loving Colonel Claude Clement. A regiment of Mungs (little mountain people from Hoa Binh country) and tough Vietnamese soldiers, wading neck-deep through rice paddies, cleaned up the river villages. Wherever organized opposition was encountered, spotter planes called in B-26s and Hellcats, directing their fire...
...been a smuggler all his life-and intended to keep on being one. Said A. Wesley Stuart, a lean, little-known backbencher for six years: "There is a very unfair difference between the prices paid in the U.S. and. . . in Canada. . . I live on the bank of the St. Croix River and you can throw a stone across to-the other side. On [the U.S.] side an electric refrigerator sells for $225. If you walk across the little bridge to the other side, it sells, for $460. . . I never came through [the border] in my lifetime that...
...Medal of Honor, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with palm, Order of Danilo of Montenegro...