Word: honorman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the first waves of marines went ashore on Iwo Jima, Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was there, commanding an assault team of the 27th Regiment, 5th Division. By noon Medal-of-Honorman Basilone had his outfit on the edge of Motoyama airfield. There he met the shell that had his number on it. By nightfall John Basilone, a good marine, was dead...
Flying the new CinCLant's flag was a brand-new four-star Admiral: barrel-chested Jonas Howard Ingram, Medal-of-Honorman and onetime Navy fullback, who had served a long tour fighting submarines and running diplomatic errands among the Latin Americas as Commander of the Fourth (South Atlantic) Fleet. He had done so well at both jobs that no Navyman begrudged hurricane-voiced, gregarious Jonas Ingram his new star and his job in the Navy's most important sea command outside of the Pacific...
...Japs began a withdrawal. One of their cruisers was slamming shells at the San Francisco, which had tangled with a Jap battleship and taken the salvo which killed Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan and her skipper, Medal-of-Honorman Cassin Young. The Helena sank the cruiser and a destroyer, shot up three other Jap ships. The U.S. beachhead in the Solomons was finally secure...