Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the South Seas came a different note: For "heroic action at the risk of their own safety," General Douglas MacArthur awarded the Soldier's Medal to Negro Privates Julius Franklin of Charleston, S.C., Harvey Crandle of Greenville, N.C., and James Scott of Montgomery, Ala. Their deed: plunging through deadly gasoline flames to save a pilot from a burning plane...
...Allied airmen. He is St. Joseph of Cupertino, who from his eighth year was subject to ecstatic visions. "Frequently," says the Catholic Encyclopedia, "he would be raised from his feet and remain suspended in the air." Hence his designation as the protector of flyers, who now wear his medal on two continents...
Says the Rev. Bonaventure Fitzgerald of the medal: "In these days of mental fog we need a spiritual beam to guide our blind flying, and certainly St. Joseph is this." Not only Roman Catholics use the medal. Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of New York commends its "true and human appeal," and Actress Gertrude Lawrence has distributed hundreds of them...
...Reaching Results. If the Battle of the Solomons is a U.S. victory it will be on Admiral Ghormley's blouse that the medal is pinned-and deservedly. Starting from a base 3,600 miles from home, he had to organize the most difficult kind of amphibious operation, a landing on a hostile shore, in dangerous waters, against an enemy with land-based aircraft...
...thus last week, describing an extraordinary scene which had broken prison monotony. The Germans, with great ceremony, paid tribute to one of their own prisoners, Lieut. Commander Stephen Haider Beattie. Through the Red Cross notification had come of the award to Beattie of the Victoria Cross, highest British military medal, for gallantry against the Nazis. Beattie's feat: skippering the destroyer Campbeltown into St.-Nazaire during the war's biggest Commando raid (TIME, April 6), ramming his ship's nose against drydock gates to plug the important German-held repair yards. During hand-to-hand fighting before...