Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September, on behalf of his King, Gort presented the Maltese with the George Cross. The citation: for gallant endurance. Chief Justice Borg accepted the medal and deposited it under a plinth in the main square opposite an old palace of the Grand Masters of the Knights of St. John. Over the plinth the King's Own Malta Regiment took up solemn sentry duty. Stoically the Maltese burrowed into their ancient island. Grimly, for the power and the glory and for Christendom, the island of the Knights fought...
...award of the highest medal in his power to give was announced by General MacArthur: the Distinguished Service Cross to Second Lieutenant Robert M. Wilde of Sioux City, Iowa-posthumously. In the fighting over New Guinea last May, when Japanese Zeros outclimbed, outmaneuvered and outnumbered U.S. Airacobras, Mike Wilde sat in the clouds, preparing to come in. He radioed that he had left only ten minutes' gasoline. Then he looked down, saw three Zeros on the tail of his flight commander. Although he had no gasoline for a fight, although his decision could mean only death, Wilde dived...
Noted for his struggle against totalitarianism in his native Italy, Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro De Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, has been awarded the Serena medal for the most significant contribution to Italian culture in the past two years...
...Royal Academy. "Madam," said the president, "you had better make him a chimney sweep." Then he looked at John's drawings. "Madam," said the president, "it is your duty to bring the boy up to art." At twelve, John Everett won the Royal Academy's gold medal. As he tripped before the solemn Academicians, "long, light curls fell over his goffered collar, his face was fresh-colored and open, his eyes a candid blue." "The Child" had become "the darling of the institution...
...President opened his fireside chat by telling the story of Lieut. John J. Powers, who died at Midway leading a dive-bomber attack on a Japanese carrier. (Then & there, over the air Franklin Roosevelt conferred on Hero Powers the Congressional Medal of Honor.) The President closed his chat by giving a broad hint of where more Medals of Honor will...