Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Staff Sergeant Maynard ("Snuffy") Smith, being decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor in England last July...
Napoleon's observation that a soldier will walk through hell to get a ribbon for his tunic did not mean that a given amount of hell invariably produced a given ribbon. To fighting men before and since, the inequities of medal awards have always been a sore subject. The current issue of the official Marine Corps Gazette gives Marine Captain Richard G. Hubler a chance to dig the old subject up again for World...
...Navy also has its faults, says Hubler, and cites an award of a medal for "diving a plane to a perilously low height." But for prodigality with medals he blames the Army most: "Navy men, viewing the mountains of color and insigne upon the left breast of Army men," often call out sardonically in bars, "Hey, hero, give me a light...
...Anatomy of Heroism. Hubler, asking "What is Heroism?" wonders "which is the more deserving of the Congressional Medal of Honor: a pilot who has shot down seven planes . . . [in] 20 minutes* or a pilot who has headed a squadron and borne its responsibilities for months? . . . The former got a Medal of Honor, the latter a Navy Cross...
...Private Floyd Lindscom, once a truck driver in Colorado Springs, attacked a German machine-gun nest, killed the crew with his .45, dragged their gun and ammunition back to his unit, which then turned German bullets on German coun-terattackers. Recommended for Lindscom: the Medal of Honor...