Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Niseis' record was unexcelled. In 240 combat days, the original 3,000 men and 6,000 replacements collected eight unit citations, one Medal of Honor, 3.600 Purple Hearts and a thousand other decorations. They lived up to their motto, "Go for Broke":*no less than 650 of the Purple Hearts had to be sent to next of kin (many of them in relocation centers) because the soldiers were dead. The 442nd also set an unbeatable mark for soldierly behavior; no man in the outfit had ever deserted...
Oldest member of the group is Ronald M. Beveridge, now a resident of Cambridge. Others include Arthur B. Boucot of Philadelphia, with 46 missions over Europe, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with Six Oak Leaf Clusters to his credit; Lehon I. Twarog of New Bedford, Mass, with greatest time in service of the group, including two and a half years in the South Pacific; and Arleigh A. Tison '49 of Shreveport, La., recipient of a Purple Heart for wounds in action...
Svetlana Molotov, 18-year-old daughter of Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov, got a gold medal for "distinguished success" in her exams at Moscow's School...
Into the job went another Army man, Major General Robert McGowan Littlejohn, who had won a Distinguished Service Medal for "marked aggressiveness" in solving "seemingly insurmountable problems." He would need all his aggressiveness to keep his new job from becoming an insurmountable problem, complicated as it was by the investigations of five congressional committees. In the face of this, Washington politicos were most impressed by Littlejohn's courage in taking on the thankless job. Quipped one: "I admire his guts, but not his judgment...
Among the speakers at the Cambridge Centennial dinner, Wednesday evening at the Hotel Commander, were President Conant, Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, former First Army commander, and Marine Corps Congressional Medal of Honor winner Brig.-Gen. Merritt A. Edson...