Word: heroisms
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...Soderhamm, Sweden, a fireman won several medals for outstanding heroism at eight fires, thereupon confessed he had started all of them...
...last week's offensive had the sweep of a great military campaign. Resistance to it had a kind of heroism in its stolid refusal to give way to alarm. As the week wore on the grand strategy of the Axis high command became clear. Main objective was Danzig, on which the German press poured a steady fire. But as Grant pounded Richmond while Sherman swept through the South in a wide circle, the great offensive in the war of nerves was launched simultaneously on two fronts: Poland was attacked by the main army while in the Balkans assaults, feints...
...Staff George Marshall, who, as chief of staff of the First Army, ably disposed the troops in the greatest battle in which the U. S. ever participated, the Meuse-Argonne. British Chief of the Imperial General Staff Lord Gort showed no great strategic ability in France but some incredible heroism, for which he won a V. C. But by far the most outstanding War-trained officer now in high command is Maurice Gustave Gamelin. At 66 he is the head of what, by almost unanimous acclaim, is today the world's finest military machine, one which he did much...
...Western (Christian) Civilization we still have left the conception of heroism based on the Arthurian Cycle. Mothers still tell their children tales of the strong and the brave who conquer the wicked, cruel giant or dragon or witch. It seems a little too much to swallow when St. George deliberately goes up to the Dragon to be decorated...
...after compartments were flooding, Lawrence Gainor braved a fiery arc, crawled between the melting, short-circuited cables, disconnected the switches, and so prevented fire which undoubtedly would have cut off more of the Squalus' crew from rescue. His performance, said his commander in his hearing last week, was "heroism beyond the call of duty...