Word: medals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Marine Corps Commandant David M. Shoup appears in the story of Tarawa, the battle in which he won the Medal of Honor. Also on the program: Kiyoshi Ohta, one of 17 Japanese who survived (from a total force...
General Maurice Challe, 54, short and stocky, is De Gaulle's military chief in Algeria. A longtime Gaullist and holder of the coveted Compagnon de la Libération Medal, Challe introduced new aggressive tactics in carrying the fight to the rebel F.L.N. by hard-driving incursions into the mountain areas where they had long been supreme. Born in Vaucluse, a graduate of St. Cyr, the French West Point, he was a general staff officer when war broke out in 1939. After the French collapse, Challe entered the Resistance and is credited with sending Eisenhower's headquarters...
...band of leaders, grimly and responsibly determined to rescue their people from disease, starvation and ignorance, is at work in Latin America. These leaders replace the medal-jingling military popinjays of old; they shun the demagogic example of Fidel Castro in Cuba; they cherish such institutions as Congress, courts, constitution. They are the hemisphere's real builders...
Capt. Spofford's post at the University will be taken over by Capt. Richard B. Redmayne at a change-of-command ceremony on Feb. 29. Capt. Redmayne has a distinguished war record and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart...
...never too late to amend the record, and last week Eastern Air Lines' Board Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker, 69, found himself one up on some old military history. As the No. 1 U.S. flying ace of World War I, Medal-of-Honorman Rickenbacker has long been credited with an official bag of 21 German planes, four balloons. Last week the Air Force, acting on a claim submitted by Captain Eddie last year, affirmed that on May 7, 1918, not too high over France, he had indeed gunned down his 22nd enemy aircraft. He had not got credit for this kill...