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...McCandless burning at both ends," said the lowly disciple, grovelling before the Sage...
...award is the Congressional Medal of Honor, which President Roosevelt conferred last week on two heroic officers of the Battle of Guadalcanal: posthumously to his onetime White House aide, Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan, and Rear Admiral Norman Scott. Cited also for the Medal of Honor was Commander Bruce McCandless, the 31-year-old communications officer who took command of the cruiser San Francisco when Admiral Callaghan and the captain were killed. Said the President to Lieut, (j.g.) Daniel J. Callaghan Jr.: "And so, Jud, I give you the finest thing that has ever been given to your father." Total...
...battleship, but a 14-in. salvo found the cruiser's bridge and killed Admiral Callaghan and Captain Cassin Young (who when blown into the water off the Arizona at Pearl Harbor swam back to his ship and resumed the fight). It knocked out Lieut. Commander Bruce McCandless, 31, third in command on the bridge at the time. When McCandless came to, he saw that he was "Sopus"—Navy for senior officer present. It was up to him to get the ship out. He got to his feet, took command of the ship, kept her proudly at the head...
William H. Binder; Thorwill Brehmer; Paul I, Carp; B. David Frank; Geroge I. Fujimoto; Geroge S. Goldstein; Thomas A. J. Herzfeld; William H. E. Jay, 3rd; James B. McCandless; John J. O'Neill; John D. Rigby; Gerard Rohde; Robert T. Sceery; Bertram A. Slaff; Raymond W. Stone; Herbert M. Yarrish...
...William F. Ketchum '41, Evanston, III.; Frank R. Lacy, Jr. '43, Dubuque, Ia.; Newbold R. Landon '42, Baltimore, Md.; Walter J. Lear '43, Miami Beach, Fla.; Robert W. Levin '42, Portland, Ore.; Walter S. Long, Jr. '43, Mayfield, Ky.; Horace G. Lunt, 2d. '41, Denver, Colo.; James B. McCandless '42, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Charles M. McCroskey '43, Kansas City, Kans.; Donald F. McDonald '43, Davenport...