Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write, to become the "H. G. Wells of this country." But he was "tickled to death to break the continuity" when the New York Sun hired him in 1938 as its first political cartoonist in 18 years. Said Rube: "I never wanted to be the fellow who got the medal for being the Oldest Employe." Today his hobbies consist of "standing, sitting, breathing." Of his first exhibition he says simply: "Very dignified and well done...
Other groups will have to break a prodigious record if they win more decorations than the 19th. Over 1,000 medals have been awarded to the living and the dead of the 19th. Major Felix M. Hardison wears the D.S.C., Purple Heart, D.F.C. and Silver Star with three Oak Leaf Clusters. More than 50 men of the 19th have won the D.S.C., including the late Captain John L. DuFrane. who flew missions seven straight days before he was killed in the Celebes. The 19th's own candidate for the Medal of Honor is Captain Harl Pease of Plymouth...
...biggest moving job in U.S. history a 3 5-year-old colonel last week was awarded the Army's Distinguished Service Medal...
...repeaters, an Oak Leaf Cluster or Gold Star (Navy) is awarded instead of another medal...
Besides these and the D.S.M., both services, particularly the Navy, give many lesser medals, such as the Soldier's Medal (for heroism not in combat, i.e., pulling comrades out of burning airplanes), Navy Good Conduct Medal, Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal...