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Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., aboard the destroyer Mayrant at a North African port, was decorated with the Silver Star (for gallantry) and the Purple Heart (for wounds). In a heavy enemy air attack on Palermo last August, he had given first aid to two wounded men on the Mayrant's bridge, carried one of them down to a dressing station "with disregard for his own safety" (TIME, Nov. 1). He was wounded in the hand...
Next day, able Michael Chinigo (International News Service) went into Sicily with assault troops, was wounded in wrist and arm by Nazi shellfire, moved ahead anyway, later entered Messina and Palermo with advanced patrols...
...know that Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is a hero," said War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds, returned from Italy a month ago. His statement was made last week after Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell revealed the wounding of young Roosevelt off Palermo...
...Palermo harbor Reynolds found a destroyer (nickname: "The Mighty May") battered to a pulp, low in the water, listing badly. He boarded it and asked for the executive officer. A sailor said: "Who, Big Pancho? . . . That's him. The big guy in dungarees...
...convoyed North Atlantic freighters, made the "suicide run" to Murmansk and back, turned up smartly for the North African invasion and sank a bothersome Vichyfrench cruiser there. Junkers 88s caught her ten miles off Palermo after the Sicily invasion and almost pounded her to the bottom. She staggered into port and, unable to reply with anything but machine guns, took a stationary beating from German bombers...