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Cited for Heroism...
During the last war, he was cited for "extraordinary heroism" for the 11 last day of the struggle during the Mouse-Argonne offensive. One of his three awards read "He searched for wounded, gave them first aid, and assisted their evacuation under heavy machine gun and artillery fire. His firm determination to go where over he could be of service, disregarding his personal safety, was a constant source of inspiration to all officers and enlisted men in his battalion...
Sorrow for Stalingrad tempered Russia's somber pride in Leningrad. The tsar-made city on the Baltic, entering its second year of siege, presented to Russia and the world an epic of agony and heroism which in its duration and sustained intensity exceeded even the siege of Sevastopol...
...gone. Last week, three months and nine days after the carrier Yorktown sank near Midway, the Navy chose to announce her passing. How many men went down with "the York" the Navy did not say, but photographs of the survivors at Honolulu (see cuts) eloquently told of suffering and heroism...
...this quality that makes The Raft much more than another saga of human heroism of which there will be many before World War II ends. The special quality of this book is that it restores and documents by deed something that has long been lacking from men's books and minds - a sense of the therapeutic goodness of the unflagging will to live...