Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half-blind Novelist Booth Tarkington, was awarded the [Theodore] Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal, commented on his 73rd anniversary: "I'm not old enough to glory in it, and I'm too old to be cheerful about it." Condoled his chauffeur, "You're looking good...
High point in the colonel's military career was a Distinguished Service Medal awarded him in 1923 (during the Harding administration), not for combat service but for "rare leadership . . . unusual executive ability . . . close supervision of training, discipline and command...
...Battle of Jutland, Flight Commander F. J. Rutland dove from the deck of the seaplane carrier Engandine to rescue a wounded rating whom a ship's heave had plunked into the sea. A proud Britain awarded Hero Rutland one of its most sparingly given decorations: the gold Albert Medal...
...immediate value. He could have told what the Repulse and the Prince of Wales were likely to expect when they got into those [Malayan] waters-a superior fleet and an enormous air force." There was only one living Briton, he reminded the Houses, who could wear an Albert Medal, First Class, awarded him in World War I. That Briton was ex-Flight Commander Rutland...
Victories in the Coral Sea and off Midway brought Admiral Chester W. Nimitz the Distinguished Service Medal last week for "exceptionally meritorious service as Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet." The white-haired CINCPAC received his decoration aboard a battleship in a West Coast port, but he almost came to grief during his visit to the U.S. mainland. In an accident while landing at a coast airport, the co-pilot of his plane was killed, two passengers injured slightly. The Admiral was little the worse for wear...