Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Thomas C. Neibaur, 44, World War I private whom General John J. Pershing called the war's third ranking hero; in a veterans' hospital in Walla Walla, Wash. Among his decorations were the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart, the Croix de guerre. He was credited with stopping a German counterattack singlehanded in the Argonne. Sent with two other men to enfilade machine-gun nests, he stood off an attack by 50 Germans, was shot four times, fainted, revived, faced a charge by eight more Germans, shot four of them dead, captured the others, ultimately returned...
...with a psychiatrist at the induction center, fool him completely. But draft-board members in a small community may know that he is a heavy drinker, or has attacked girls, or never keeps a job, or is a thief. In the Army such a man will sometimes win a medal through sheer love of action. More often he is the man who is A.W.O.L. With his quick suggestibility he spreads rumors. He may even sell out to the enemy...
Legion of Merit (newest U.S. medal). Navy, 20; Allies, 2. Sample-case: Water Tender Leo M. Savage, who "immediately after the explosion [aboard the torpedoed destroyer Blakeley'] secured the boiler fires . . . shifted fuel oil ... relighted fires . . . contributed to the absence of panic...
Navy & Marine Corps Medal. Navy, 72; Marines, 2. Sample citation (to Shipfitter William Stanley Thomas) : "He went to the assistance of Commander F. Rohow, who had been injured [in the Pearl Harbor attack] and was floating in the water in a state of shock. He kept the Commander afloat until rescued...
...Field awards, not yet reported to Washington, will greatly increase this figure. †t Most decorated U.S. citizen is Douglas Mac-Arthur: Medal of Honor, D.S.C. with Oak Leaf Cluster, D.S.M. with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, Silver Star with six Oak Leaf Clusters. He won the Medal of Honor in World...