Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [June 4], re Lieut. Commander John McCloy, you state: "one of the eight men in U.S. history to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor." I claim that there are nine twice-awards...
Across the Wastes. He had disembarked at Antwerp, at Brussels had boarded the same plane in which Franklin Roosevelt had flown to other Big Three meetings. Some of the time on the way to Germany, he sat in the co-pilot's seat discussing with Lieut. Colonel Henry Myers the problems of farming and transportation in Europe. He ate a lunch of chicken and buttered carrots...
...Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army was General Douglas MacArthur's invaluable Team No. 2 in the Philippine campaign. Built up quietly in New Guinea by big, jovial Ike Eichelberger with a staff which started training in Ben Lear's old Second Army, the Eighth went into action as an identified army late in January. The 38th Division and elements of the 24th piled ashore north of Bataan, went on to take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove...
...pilots returning from bombing Japan often call Iwo "the most beautiful place in the world." Reason: by last week 1,400 of the Superforts (carrying 15,400 airmen) had made emergency landings on Iwo's runways. Lieut. Alvin Beck of Fort Wayne had flown eleven missions and landed on Iwo five times. Said Lieut. Don Midlam of Lima, Ohio: "Whenever I land on this island, I thank God, and the men who fought...
From Okinawa last week came word that Lieut. Robert J. Herwig. a 6-ft. 3-in. platoon leader of the 6th Marine Division, had distinguished himself again-this time by plunging into a burning plane and dragging three men to safety. On Guam last year the onetime All-America football player (University of California) had won the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" by leading his men in repelling three heavy Jap counterattacks, and by refusing evacuation though he was twice wounded. His own men know Bob Herwig only as an exceptional officer. They have all but forgotten what U.S. civilians...