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Wounded on D-day when the LST he was riding went down off the southern coast of France, Lieutenant (jg) Jerome Dobin USNR received the Purple Heart medal from Commander M. E. Paradise, officer-in-charge, Naval Training Schools (Communications) at a ceremony in the Yard Wednesday morning...
...China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have got a ribbon there for everything but Shays's Rebellion...
Mabel Thorp Boardman, 80-odd, able, stately, longtime (25 years) secretary of the American Red Cross, who has watched the membership grow from 300 to some 30,000,000, retired (after 44 years) last week, received a Distinguished Service Medal (first one to be awarded by the Red Cross) and a citation from President Roosevelt for being the "inspirer" of the organization. Victorian Miss Boardman, one of Washington's top society hostesses, who looks amazingly like Great Britain's Queen Mary,* planned to write her memoirs...
...Major Richard Ira Bong, the ranking U.S. ace, last week went the Congressional Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry . . . above and beyond the call of-duty" from Oct. 10 to Nov. 15. During that time 26-year-old Dick Bong, officially classed as a gunnery instructor, had volunteered to fight, had bagged eight Jap planes...
This week the sight's inventor, Java-born Carl L. Norden, was to be awarded the Holley Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his invention. Meantime, the Navy announced that Inventor Norden had a collaborator, Captain Frederick I. Entwistle, assistant research chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. Captain Entwistle, who joined Norden in his experiments in 1928, shares the patents and the credit for the final model...