Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Kearby was 32-a tall, slim, calm, slightly greying artist at the controls of his P-38 Lightning. He had at least 21 Jap planes (plus seven probables) to his credit, had received the Congressional Medal of Honor in January for shooting down six enemy ships in a single engagement. For a time after that Texan Kearby was miserable in a New Guinea desk job. But he maneuvered himself back to combat duty four weeks...
...first time the Russian man-in-the-street knew what Voronov looked like. One photograph showed him receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
Kelly had been cited and promoted before this, but last week, "somewhere in the Mediterranean Theater," he got the highest of all U.S. awards, the Congressional Medal of Honor. This...
Boisterous, boyish (25) Bud Mahurin was a mediocre student at Fort Wayne (Ind.) High School because he spent too much time tinkering with motors. He learned to fly during two years of engineering study at Purdue. Holder of the D.S.C. and D.F.C., Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, he did not achieve top-scoring distinction easily. He flew his Republic Thunderbolt on 28 missions over Nazi territory before making his first kill...
...Walter Carl Beckham is the only other one who fought Germans. His Thunderbolt was downed by flak three weeks after his 18th victory (TIME, March 13). The only other Army man on the list is much-decorated Lockheed Lightning Pilot Captain Richard R. Bong (D.S.C., D.F.C., Silver Star, Air Medal, a cluster of ten Oak Leaf Clusters), whose 21 Jap kills put him in fourth place...