Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Utah Beach on Dday, and it had hard fighting all the way to Cherbourg. Van Fleet was wounded, left the hospital to get back to his outfit while Bradley was on the way there to give him a medal. Bradley caught up with him, gave him the medal, and some advice: handle the next fight from a command post and stop working up forward on the firing line...
This week, in recognition of his responsibility for this fine growth, and in tribute to his 50 years of service, the National Geographic Society will present President and Editor Gilbert Grosvenor with a special medal at a jubilee celebration in Washington's Constitution Hall...
...gave them all with the same intensity. Phi Beta Kappas have flunked them and law-review editors have gotten Ds. Once he gave such a stiff examination that 31 out of his 35 students failed it. Later, the students gave him a dinner and presented him with a medal. On it was etched the motto of Verdun: Ils ne passeront pas (They shall not pass...
Miss Agnes Mongan, Curator of Drawings at the Fogg Museum was among ST New Englanders to receive Lafayette Day honors from the French government last Friday. She was awarded the Medal of Honor at the French Consulate in Boston...
...work as consultant to the airforce, W. Ratton Leach. Professor at the Law School was awarded the exceptional civilian service award Saturday. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Air Force, presented the medal in person...