Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, not yet 17, Staff Sergeant Clifford R. Wherley, his chest bright with medal and campaign ribbons, leaned back in War Secretary Stimson's office chair, sitting before Robert Todd Lincoln's old desk, and received the press. Still under age, Hero Wherley was being discharged from the Air Forces. But before his uniform and stripes are put away, Cliff will make a nationwide morale tour. The story he has to tell is a boy's dream in Technicolor. The Army believes it will spur a landslide of 17-year-old enlistments. Cliff Wherley...
...African ribbon, with Star for action over Italian islands; the American Theater ribbon; the Army Good Conduct ribbon; the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters...
...Longtime board chairman of the American Chemical Society and recipient of almost every important medal that organization confers, Midgley in 1930 stood before his admiring fellow chemists in convention at Atlanta. Dramatically he demonstrated Freon's safety by drawing the gas into his lungs, using it to put out a lighted paper. The staid scientists gave him a rowdy ovation...
...familiar penalty for his habit of overstaying leave), then climbed into his best uniform, went out to the windswept airdrome, stood at deadpan attention while War Secretary Henry L. Stimson read the citation and pinned around his neck the blue ribbon and golden star of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Sergeant Snuffy was the second soldier in the European Theater of Operations to receive the nation's highest award,* the first live man to wear...
...Army's first Distinguished Service Medal in the European Theater of Operations last week went to gruff and crusty Brigadier General Robert McGowan Littlejohn, ETO's chief quartermaster. Said the citation for the highest noncombat award: "marked aggressiveness . . . which met and solved many unexpected and seemingly unsurmountable problems of supply [including those of] the African Task Force...