Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July Is not worth...
...wounded, but the rest keep right on fighting. You learn how much blood you have to pay for fifty-odd yards of battle-scarred mud. Real estate is expensive when you're in the Infantry. And there's nothing but fighting . . . hard fighting, dirty fighting. No silver wings for the girl back home to wear . . . no crash helmet to wear like a tank driver . . . no fancy names like paratrooper or bombardier. You're just an ordinary guy with...
Four hundred twenty-one graduates of the Silver Anniversary session of the Chaplain School were graduated with impressive ceremonies at 9 o'clock on Wednesday of this week. Following a drill and review at Andover Field, the student body paraded past Chaplain (Col.) William D. Cleary and his staff. Music was provided by the band of the 241st Coast Artillery...
...spaghetti dinners for the 300 relatives of the Salmaggi family who visit in droves of 40 or 50 at a time. An imposing 6-ft. figure, Salmaggi stalks Manhattan's streets in spats., a hat two feet in diameter, sporting a glittering diamond-studded lapel pin and a silver-headed cane that once belonged to Caruso. But in 1932 Impresarío Salmaggi left his company stranded in Chicago, having paid them off in unsigned checks...
...ninth decoration. Staff Sergeant Kenneth Gradle of St. Louis, 2 2-year-old radioman on the plane that flew MacArthur out of the Philippines, received his eighth award, became the U.S.'s most decorated enlisted hero (he already wore the D.F.C. with oak leaf cluster, the silver star with two oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart with one). Sergeant Gradle had flown on 60 missions, more than any other man in the 19th, and shot down six Zeros-more than enough to call himself an ace if he were a pursuit pilot. He joined the Air Corps six months...