Word: heroisms
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...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...
...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...