Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heroism of Keeping Clad...
...example - Technical Sergeant Edwin N. Rees. Not so long ago he was "the best office boy we ever had" (the U. S. at War Editor speaking). Now he is a rear gunner-and somewhere in Britain this week he wears a just-won Distinguished Flying Cross awarded for "extraordinary heroism" in bombing missions over Germany...
...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...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's screen presentation of Lieutenant Ted Lawson's bestseller, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," is a sincere and restrained record of heroism in this war. Director Mervyn LeRoy wisely lets the dramatic quality of Major General Doolittle's remarkable feat develop naturally, unmarred by overdone Hollywood heroics...
...time Joseph (Benson Fong) appears, Father Chisolm has so bitterly lost hope and faith in humankind that he is all but incapable of realizing that he has met his first true friend in China. From then on, with many ups & downs of heroism, sacrifice, friendship, war and death, things go a little better...