Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Thompson and Chinigo received decorations. From the U.S. Army, which well knows the hazards correspondents face, Thompson got a Purple Heart Medal, Chinigo a Silver Star...
...WACs marched and wheeled and stood at at tention, a trembling Peewee did a front and center, stood alone. The adjutant read a citation: "For outstanding heroism and self-sacrifice," from General Dwight Eisenhower. On her O.D. blouse Major General E.S. Hughes pinned the first Soldier's medal awarded a WAC. Then, though the regulations do not prescribe it, towering General Hughes unbent in the middle, leaned down and planted a kiss on the glowing cheek of Private Maloney...
Hero Pokryshkin worked his way from the ground: he began as a mechanic at an airfield, shifted to an aircraft factory, took up flight training. On his blouse glisten the Gold Star of a Hero of the Soviet Union, three other Soviet orders, the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal...
Last week Captain Gable returned to the U.S. with 50,000 ft. of film, campaign ribbons, and the Air Medal (for five combat missions). But his anonymity was gone. When the War Department arranged a press conference, stenographers lined Pentagon Building corridors six deep to watch him walk by. They chattered and oh-ah'd: "He's marvelous . . . isn't he smooth...
...Japs began a withdrawal. One of their cruisers was slamming shells at the San Francisco, which had tangled with a Jap battleship and taken the salvo which killed Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan and her skipper, Medal-of-Honorman Cassin Young. The Helena sank the cruiser and a destroyer, shot up three other Jap ships. The U.S. beachhead in the Solomons was finally secure...