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...never too late to amend the record, and last week Eastern Air Lines' Board Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker, 69, found himself one up on some old military history. As the No. 1 U.S. flying ace of World War I, Medal-of-Honorman Rickenbacker has long been credited with an official bag of 21 German planes, four balloons. Last week the Air Force, acting on a claim submitted by Captain Eddie last year, affirmed that on May 7, 1918, not too high over France, he had indeed gunned down his 22nd enemy aircraft. He had not got credit for this kill...
Honored at Jamestown, Tenn. (pop. 2,115) by his old 82nd Division (long since an airborne outfit), old (69), ailing Sergeant Alvin York whispered his thanks for a new auto equipped to carry his wheelchair (he was crippled by a stroke in 1954). Then, exhausted, Medal-of-Honorman York beckoned to friends and was wheeled from the speaker's platform while the oratory rumbled on, returned by ambulance to his home in nearby Pall Mall...
...army of the Korean war, Marine Sergeant Alfred L. McLaughlin, credited with killing some 150 enemy soldiers at Bunker Hill, was whittled down to the rank of private, fined $120 and given a three-month stretch at hard labor. Better able to hold a hard position than hard liquor, Honorman McLaughlin had drunkenly gotten into an armed brawl with the wrong enemy, his commanding officer, Major Henry Checklou. McLaughlin's beef: Checklou was always taunting him about that medal. On the other hand, the one-man army of World War II. ex-Army Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly...
...Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, 40 Eisenhower advocates from the capital area, 60 more brought in from around the U.S. by Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon, gathered for a "press conference." Though Ike knew that his audience (it included ex-Yankee Phil Rizzuto, John Roosevelt, Medal of Honorman "Commando" Kelly, onetime Ambassador Lewis Douglas) was sympathetic, questions had not been screened...
After 32 distinguished years in the Army, Major General William F. Dean, 56, top-ranking hero of the Korean war and for three grisly years a prisoner of the Chinese Reds, packed his military gear for retirement this week. Highlight of Medal-of-Honorman Dean's last parade at San Francisco's famed Presidio: the award of a combat infantryman's badge, which he missed...