Word: mayrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., aboard the destroyer Mayrant at a North African port, was decorated with the Silver Star (for gallantry) and the Purple Heart (for wounds). In a heavy enemy air attack on Palermo last August, he had given first aid to two wounded men on the Mayrant's bridge, carried one of them down to a dressing station "with disregard for his own safety" (TIME, Nov. 1). He was wounded in the hand...
...Elliott (captain in Army air procurement at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio), 26-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. quit his job as a Wall Street lawyer, prepared to leave wife and small son, report as ordered April 3 for service as ensign of the Naval Reserve, aboard the destroyer Mayrant. Next day, fourth and youngest son John, 25, convalescing at the White House after a minor operation, got a commission too-as ensign in the Navy supply corps. His probable first assignment upon being called: to enroll in Philadelphia's Naval Finance and Supply School...
ABOARD U.S.S. MAYRANT AT SEA--President Roosevelt cruised toward the Carribbean and South Atlantic tonight, for an inspection tour of America's newly-acquired defense bases...
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