Word: oakleaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officer, and though seriously burned about the face and hands-it cost him his mustache and six weeks in hospital-he assumed command until help arrived the next day. He came out of service in 1946 wearing a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves and a bronze star with oakleaf cluster...
George A. Willmore is a helicopter pilot who has flown 400 assault operations in Viet Nam, has had his craft hit by gunfire 23 times, has twice been shot down and has collected the Bronze Star and eight oakleaf clusters for his Air Medal. Now Captain Willmore, 31, has become the first and only serviceman in the Vietnamese war to declare for public office in the U.S. Willmore is seeking the Democratic nomination for Congressman in Idaho's Second District, has already won the party's official endorsement. Last week he started home to prepare for the August...
...part of the full-honors retirement ceremony, Taylor reviewed the troops, stopping occasionally to talk with a soldier, inspected some howitzers and found them spotless. That done, he received from McNamara his third oakleaf cluster in lieu of a fourth Distinguished Service Medal. Said McNamara, borrowing the title of Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, his post-retirement analysis of U.S. defense ills: "Maxwell Taylor has never sounded an uncertain trumpet. He will always be one of the first to whom we turn with the hard tasks, the great challenges...
...service has ranged from staff posts to the front line, and his chestful of decorations includes France's Croix de guerre, Russia's Order of the Fatherland, and South Korea's Military Order of Taeguk, as well as the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Harkins seldom shouts. If an officer does not measure up, he is quietly shipped out. One colonel remembers that the worst dressing-down he ever received was when Harkins looked him in the eye and said coldly: "You didn't do your...
...South Pacific during World War II. Between wars he won a special commendation for deliberately ditching planes in Virginia's James River to test evacuation procedures. In Korea, Lieut. Colonel Harvey flew 114 missions. During his long service, his decorations included an Air Medal with eight oakleaf clusters and a D.F.C. with cluster. But last week Julian Harvey was dead by his own hand. And his suicide opened the books on a strange, star-crossed life...