Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [June 4], re Lieut. Commander John McCloy, you state: "one of the eight men in U.S. history to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor." I claim that there are nine twice-awards...
...Reader Gage is wrong; so was TIME. Twelve servicemen (six Navy, four Army, two Marine) have won the Medal of Honor twice. Five additional marines were awarded two Congressional Medals apiece (one by the Army, one by the Navy) for a single action on the Western Front in World...
...years old," said 33-year-old Byron Nelson. He limped into Dayton's Moraine Country Club, bowed down by a lame back and too much golf. Then, with a sigh, he pulled himself together and hobbled 36 holes in 6 under par to tie for medal honors in the Professional Golfers' Association Championship. That still left a long row of match play to hoe, and Nelson was feeling no spryer...
...Medal for Benny (Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova; TIME...
There were special victory awards for Marshal Stalin too. By decree of the Supreme Soviet he became the second living European to receive the title of Generalissimo (the first: Generalissimo Francisco Franco). Generalissimo Stalin was also awarded the Order of Victory, the Gold Star Medal of Hero of the Soviet Union, and the Order of Lenin...