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...Tarawa alone five Marines from San Antonio were killed: Lieut. Alexander Bonnyman Jr., Staff Sergeant William J. Bordelon Jr., Pfcs. Arthur Menger, Gene Seng, Charles Montague. Wounded were Sergeant Sam McAllister, Pfc. George Smith. Cited for heroism: Lieut. John Holmgreen, a schoolmate at Central Catholic High School of Seng, Montague and Bordelon...
...Anatomy of Heroism. Hubler, asking "What is Heroism?" wonders "which is the more deserving of the Congressional Medal of Honor: a pilot who has shot down seven planes . . . [in] 20 minutes* or a pilot who has headed a squadron and borne its responsibilities for months? . . . The former got a Medal of Honor, the latter a Navy Cross...
...Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism . . . during an aggressive and successful submarine war patrol in the immediate vicinity of enemy Japanese coast line." He won the Silver Star Medal for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action." But last week the Navy said the Pompano, long overdue from her last patrol, must be presumed missing-iyth U.S. submarine reported lost. Tommy Thomas' record, still bright, had ended...
...Heroism & Ruins. The Führer said that Germany was "probably the only country . . . that has increased its coal production and subordinated everything to the demands of war by extreme restriction of private requirements." The homeland had stood up to the bombings so well that it could, he said, now be held up to the fighting forces "as an example of equal heroism and spirit of sacrifice." Indirectly, he testified to the destruction wrought upon Germany by the night-bombers of the R.A.F. the day-bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Matter-of-factly, as though there were...
...span of years-through Peter Cooper's 92, Abram Hewitt's 80, Edward Hewitt's 77-the picture unfolds of a day of unchecked productivity, where wealth was the reward of ingenuity, and the common good was the result of wealth, when patents, like decorations for heroism, were signed by the President, and the capitalist who backed a new mechanical device to better the lot of mankind (and make a private fortune) was the equal of a general, a commissar, a duke, or a mechanic...