Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army handed out 126,525 decorations. The Navy, about one-third as large and more chary of its decorations, had given 7,073. But the Navy had been more generous with the top-ranking Congressional Medal of Honor (43 awards', including 14 to Marines, one to a Coast Guardsman, against the Army's 32). > Eight out of nine Army awards were D.F.C.s and Air Medals for flyers. Regardless of any heroism or merit involved, an Air Medal is usually awarded for five combat flights; an oakleaf cluster for each additional five. Result: 40,585 Air Medals, plus...
...alert for Nazi airborne counterattack. "At the most [a Home Guardsman] may waste a day; at the best he may kill a German before breakfast and be back at his factory on the evening shift...
...water," across the only exit, twice collided with an electric fan before he got out. When he reached a hospital ship an hour and a half later, he was probably the most severely burned man on medical record. Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire had scorched 55% of Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson's body, and his survival was considered a medical miracle. The young fireman was burned on 75 to 80% of his body, and lived...
...Maquet brought Dumas the rough draft of a novel about a Guardsman named D'Artagnan. The Three Musketeers had been born...
...Coast Guardsman Victor Mature's molars were tugged out in Boston-two of the few that never showed in photographs. He confided to the local press the things most desired by every sailor when he reaches port: a soft bed and a dirty joke...