Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of World War II Medal of Honor winners now stood at 272 (Army 197, Marines 41, Navy 33, Coast Guard 1). This was more than twice the number given for heroism in World War I. But the highest award was still hard to get: only one serviceman in 45,000 had received...
Kiefer, who wore a helmet with "Dixie" boldly stenciled on it, had been executive officer of the old Yorktown at the Coral Sea battle (where he won the D.S.M.), and at Midway (where the York sank and he got the Navy Cross for heroism). There he had jumped from the ship and shattered his right leg and ankle...
...platoon leader of the 6th Marine Division, had distinguished himself again-this time by plunging into a burning plane and dragging three men to safety. On Guam last year the onetime All-America football player (University of California) had won the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" by leading his men in repelling three heavy Jap counterattacks, and by refusing evacuation though he was twice wounded. His own men know Bob Herwig only as an exceptional officer. They have all but forgotten what U.S. civilians would probably regard as his greatest claim to fame: he is also the husband of Kathleen...
...TIME undertook to print all the true tales of U.S. heroism now being released for the first time, it could not do justice to the weekly news. All honor to the men of the Escort Carrier Guadalcanal, the Destroyer Escorts Chatelain, Pope, Pillsbury, Flaherty and Jenks, and to Composite Squadron 8, for their unique achievement...
Died. Lieut. Commander John McCloy, 69, longtime U.S. Navy professional, one of the eight men in U.S. history to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (for heroism in the Boxer uprising in 1900 and at the storming of the Veracruz Customs House in 1914); of a heart attack; in Leonia...