Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...details to one of the most daring U.S. exploits of this war-the Marine Corps raid on Makin Island, 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii (TIME, Sept. 7). Navy Crosses went to 15 men, among them Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt. Back in action with his outfit, he got his medal on Guadalcanal last October from CINCPAC Admiral Chester W. Nimitz...
Previously Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, under whom Roosevelt served as second in command, had received a like decoration. For the Roosevelt family Jimmy's was the first medal of the war: a second was won by Lieut. Colonel Elliott, commander of a photographic unit in North Africa, who received the D.F.C. last month (TIME...
...maker of that Jap-killing torpedo director was no oldtime munitions outfit, no veteran precision manufacturer, no war-wise Naval ordnance plant. It was energetic, ingenious General Mills Inc., which before the war was a peaceful flour miller (Gold Medal, Bisquick, Wheaties). But last week General Mills was running a huge Naval fire control plant, was hard at work turning out complicated gunsights, torpedo directors, smoke-screen gadgets, telescope and periscope prisms...
Last week, as if symbolizing this momentous change, which may affect U.S. industry long after World War II is over, the Society of Chemical Industry gave its top award, the Perkin Medal, not to a leader of an established chemical firm like Carbide, Monsanto or Du Pont, but to Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, head of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co., a subsidiary of Standard...
...Philippines in September 1941, added an Oak Leaf Cluster for bombing a Jap battleship Jan. 9, 1942. Six weeks later in Java he earned a Silver Star by saving a fellow officer in the face of enemy fire, later got an Oak Leaf Cluster to add to that medal. News of Colonel Reiser's death has probably not reached his wife Margaret, who is still interned in Manila. With the death of Don Keiser, Army men believed the title of youngest colonel passed to Richard H. Carmichael, 29, commander of the 19th Group (TIME, Dec. 7), promoted last month...