Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldier's Return. In Rhinelander, Wis., Lieut. Donald Karr got home from the European Theater early in the morning, slipped quietly into his parents' bedroom, shouted "Surprise!", woke up the new tenants...
...week the President awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for heroism, to six of them. Two of the heroes, both marines, were dead. Their mothers came to the White House in their place. From El Paso came Mrs. C. Jane Hawkins, whose son, Lieut. William D. Hawkins, after being wounded on Betio Island, had fought on for hours-to die from Jap gunfire. From Worcester, Mass, came Mrs. George F. Power, whose son, Lieut. John V. Power, died outside a Jap pillbox on Namur Island, holding his left hand to a stomach wound, firing...
...they stood at attention, freshly shaved, in clean uniforms, stepping for ward precisely as their names were called: Staff Sergeant Jessie R. Drowley, of Luzerne, Mich., Pfc. William J. Johnston of Colchester, Conn., Technical Sergeant Forrest L. Vosler, of Livonia, N.Y., Lieut. Arnold L. Bjorklund of Seattle, Wash...
Married. Army Air Forces Lieut. Thomas Dudley Harmon, 24, twice All-America Michigan halfback, twice reported lost on duty; and Hollywood starlet Elyse Knox, 26, dressed in a gown made from his bullet-riddled silk parachute; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...aeronautical engineer and a lieut. commander in the British Admiralty as well as an experienced writer (Ordeal, Pied Piper), Author Shute makes his conventional story more than just readable, with exciting scenes of air combat, much pastoral warmth and charm...