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...deed that Sandy Nininger did in the Philippines was beautiful only in its violence; it was dedicated to the hope that other American boys might enjoy the beautiful things for which Sandy Nininger never seemed to have enough time. The deed, as described in his citation...
...Kiel, hardworking Karl Doenitz can, by twisting his close-cropped head, ponder a wall portrait of prong-bearded old Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, World War I evangelist of unrestricted U-boat warfare. Inscribed on the portrait he could read the U-boat credo: Die Tat ist alles-The deed is all. In other words: the only thing that matters in U-boating is the bacon you bring home...
...extreme example was the deed of petite, Manila-bred Filipino Nurse Rebecca Salvación, who had to take cover in a shallow trench when her station was bombed. Other nurses were evacuated in ambulances. Somehow Nurse Salvación was left behind. So, too, was a U.S. Marine, wounded in the throat by a bomb fragment and calling for help from a nearby trench. Rebecca Salvación crawled from her trench, made it to a building, summoned an Army doctor, Captain Benjamin Kysor of Oswego, N.Y., to help...
Even twenty nations can do a good deed for the cause of the democracies by axing relations with the Axis. Each Nazi diplomatic and consular post in this hemisphere is a nest of intrigue and a center of information, and tossing out all their staffs would deprive Germany of one of its chief military and ideological weapons. Enemy agents would have less chance to spy on the defenses of the Americas, and the sources of funds and propaganda which have supported the many, cells of fifth columnism in south America would be virtually wiped...
Winston Churchill cabled Captain Agnew congratulations. King George VI named him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for his deed, unprecedented in World War II: finding and destroying an entire convoy...