Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardly ever bigger than a hundred yards on each side of him," Pyle wrote. That 200 yards was his beat. In articles home to 393 daily and 297 weekly newspapers (total daily circulation: 13,390,144) Ernie Pyle covered that 200-yard view, its terrors, fatigues, laughs and heroism, more vividly and more simply than any other U.S. reporter. After 29 months of it, he wrote from France last September...
...western front last week by the U.S. First Army. He was talkative: "There will be no capitulation-you will have to occupy every town in Germany. You can't imagine or understand the Ger man people. They are living in a completely different world, one of heroism and romanticism. The fact that they have no manufacturing centers remaining doesn't make any difference to them...
There was not much heroism in the little houses which hoisted white flags in the path of the Allied columns. Yet still no white flag had been raised over the Nazi-dominated core of the German nation...
Lieut. Will Rogers Jr., son of the late great humorist, and a Congressman from California who quit politics for war, was promoted to first lieutenant and awarded the Bronze Star for "heroism" in leading a patrol during the Battle of the Bulge...
Lieut. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., late Navy flier son of the ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism and courage" as a bomber pilot in his last flight over Europe last August...