Word: heroisms
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Candidate Bennett then turned to U.S. heroism...
...though in exile, and as the richest woman in the world, the Queen could have had a lavish welcome. But she vetoed that. Next morning she chatted at length with some 200 Dutch sailors at the Home for Netherlands Seamen, decorated eleven of them and one Dutch nurse for heroism in action. After 27 hours in the gaudiest city of the world, the plain, sensible Queen of The Netherlands returned to her Cape Cod cottage in Lee, there to carry on her affairs of state and her shopping...
This week, on July 7, the Japanese celebrated the anniversary of their attack on China. China's millions, soldiers and civilians, who for five years have fought off Japan with limitless heroism, did not celebrate it. The Chinese heard the word anniversary with a sense of desperation. This was China on July...
...conversation took place last November. While Lieut. Kauffman, R.N., was on leave in the U.S., the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy then found Draper Kauffman's eyes and experience good enough for war. Last week Secretary Knox awarded Lieut. Kauffman, U.S.N., the Navy Cross for exceptional heroism. His deed: unloading and examining a live, 500-lb. Japanese bomb which failed to explode when it hit an Army field in Hawaii last...
...details of two U.S. victories—the Battle of the Coral Sea, May 4 to 8, and the Battle of Midway, June 3 to 7 threw much light on the current balance of gain & loss in the Pacific. Tales of U.S. skill, heroism and success also provided the first clear look at naval warfare, 1942 style...