Word: lieut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Flight Lieut. William John Sanger, 29, of Harvey, N.D., who enlisted in April 1941. A bomber pilot, he has won both the D.S.O. and the D.F.C. ¶ Flight Lieut. John Harlan Stickell, 30, Gilson, Ill. He joined up in 1941, is a bomber pilot, holds the D.S.O. and the D.F.C...
Nothing south of the Philippines would do for the attack: Lieut. General Kenney's airmen based on Morotai had closed those routes. There were only two channels through the Philippines. The Japs bent their strategy to geographic necessity...
Shoup's was the 123rd Medal of Honor awarded in World War II (Army 67, Navy 29, Marines 26, Coast Guard 1), the third for Tarawa. The others went, posthumously, to two Texans, Lieut. William Deane Hawkins and Staff Sergeant William J. Bordelon...
...Navy Lieut. Robert Frost ("from Auburn, Maine; I wish to God I was back there") told a reporter: "We were going crazy with babies at first. There were a lot of orphans, and nobody had thought of baby bottles and nipples for them. We used rubber gloves, medicine droppers -anything to get milk into them. They rushed us out some baby bottles from the States and we are in pretty good shape now." Diapers were included in the Navy's last shipment to Saipan...
Killed in Action. Army Captain Alexander M. Patch 3rd, 24, West Point-trained only son of the 7th Army's Commander Lieut. General Alexander Patch; while assaulting an enemy position in France...