Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which President Truman gave him a third Distinguished Service Medal, citing him for "extraordinary foresight, sound judgment, brilliant strategic genius...
Last week, for gallantry and allergy, Koigi won the Australian Army's Loyal Service Medal...
...work as special consultant for program control to General Arnold, Professor Learned, first director of the Army Air Forces Statistical School, has received the Distinguished Service Medal. "His entire service, marked by conspicuous industry, initiative and far-sightedness, has been of inestimable benefit to the country and the effectiveness of the war effort," the citation read in part...
...with which to fight complacency. In 1891, at 24, she married a Berlin doctor, helped finance his clinic by selling harrowing studies of the kind of people who came to him as patients. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her stuff "the art of the gutter," in 1898 canceled a gold medal award which was to have been given her. She bitterly opposed World War I, and skillfully recorded its ugly aftermath in Germany. The Nazis stopped her from exhibiting, but she kept right on working, turned to sculpture when her eyes dimmed. She only changed her weapons; what she was fighting...
Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, famed Congressional Medal winner (40 dead Germans in 20 minutes), settled down to the peaceful task of running a Pittsburgh filling station. Said he: "It's an honest living. I like...