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...ARMY" IST LIEUT. JAMES L. STONE, 30, of Pine Bluff, Ark.: Although wounded three times, he continued to fight until his platoon was overwhelmed. Even then, "his voice could still be heard faintly urging his men to carry on, until he lost consciousness...
...MARINE IST LIEUT. RAYMOND G. MURPHY, 23, of Pueblo, Colo.: ". . . Wounded a second time ... he again refused medical assistance until assured that every one of his men . . . had preceded him to the main lines...
...MARINE IST LIEUT. GEORGE H. O'BRIEN JR., 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas: "Although shot through the arm ... he proceeded to hurl hand grenades into the bunkers and, utilizing his carbine to best advantage . . . succeeded in killing at least three of the enemy...
Wainwright's formal qualifications for leadership were good but not extraordinary. Born at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., where his father was serving, he went to West Point and built himself an orthodox career in the cavalry. He served with the ist Cavalry, fought the Moros in the Philippines, had a succession of combat staff jobs in France in World War I, and went through the usual round of peacetime assignments. In 1940, as a temporary major general, he was sent to command the Philippine division. On Pearl Harbor Day, Wainwright was senior field commander under Douglas MacArthur...
...tale about an English cathedral town and the faith that sustained it (14th century). In The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan made diverting entertainment out of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain (sth century). Now, in an almost equally engaging yarn, Henry Treece reaches back to the time (ist century) when the Romans had just conquered Britain-an era when proper Britons worshipped the sun and painted blue marks on their foreheads to show their rank...