Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maryland's lean Millard Tydings, his sharp jaw jutting, his face red with wrath, rose to address his colleagues in the U.S. Senate. In his opening words there was an ominous restraint, in his tone a deadly edge. Senator Tydings, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Cross, grimly said he would speak "from a very slight knowledge of modern warfare...
...Other Day. . . ." Not until the following June did his family hear from him again. Then came a letter on cheap note paper, in John's schoolboy hand: "I am very happy for the other day I received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award you can receive in the arm forces. . . . Tell Pop his son is still tough. Tell Don thanks for the prayer they say in school...
When the first waves of marines went ashore on Iwo Jima, Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was there, commanding an assault team of the 27th Regiment, 5th Division. By noon Medal-of-Honorman Basilone had his outfit on the edge of Motoyama airfield. There he met the shell that had his number on it. By nightfall John Basilone, a good marine, was dead...
General Joseph ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, battlewise commander of the Army Ground Forces and a veteran infantryman who has six medals and four campaign ribbons but rarely wears any, admitted that there was "just one medal" he would like to wear. "I have never been able to get it," he said. "I envy the infantrymen who have. . . ." The medal: Expert Rifleman...
Lieutenant William R. Seaman, USNR, Head of the Military Department NTS (Communications), received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service yesterday in ceremonies immediately following morning Colors. Commander M. E. Paradise, USNR, Officer in Charge NTS (Communications), read the citation and made the presentation before a formation of the whole school in the old Yard...