Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
Some of the pilots, some of the mechanics, radiomen and other groundmen who made up the Group donned the khaki with winged insignia of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Some were already headed home. For some of these, the end had not been altogether pleasant. General Chennault at first had not looked kindly on their going, although he later relented. Two-thirds of the A.V.G.'s pilots had come out of the U.S. Navy, and they did not relish going into the Army any more than the Navy liked the Army's bid for them. But for those...
Bedecked with the armbands of Civilian Defense volunteers, wearing the insignia of their organizations, or carrying placards illustrating Harvard's contributions to the war effort, the College's contingent in Boston's "I Am an American" Day parade will leave en masse from in front of the Coop at 1 o'clock tomorrow...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at Harvard University has announced the award of 170 insignia to athletes who competed in winter sports...
Just a few days before Paris fell, Minot went through a raid, stationed only a few hundred yards from one of the main forts defending the city. He fled Paris on a half-hour's notice, and drove continuously for 48 hours, covering only 300 miles. The ARP priority insignia on his car enabled him to get through military lines. Later he cycled 300 miles back to Paris, and months afterward finally received his papers to come to America via Lisbon...