Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aerial chauffeur for his father ever since the beginning of the campaign. Officially the Marshal was returning to Italy, to rest briefly and take his annual cure at the radioactive springs of Fiuggi. Actually things were growing too tense in Europe for Benito Mussolini to have his best soldier 2,000 miles away. At 10 o'clock on the morning of his departure Marshal Badoglio welcomed to Addis Ababa his old friend and colleague Marshal Rudolfo Graziani, handed over to him the authority to rule Ethiopia as "Regent." Fascist wiseacres wagered last week that Marshal Badoglio will not return...
When Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, after killing 25 Germans singlehanded and capturing 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to Fentress County as the "greatest civilian soldier of the War," he promptly married his childhood sweetheart, Gracie Williams, with Tennessee's Governor performing the ceremony. His next wish was to build a good school for the neighbors' children. Hero York raised $10,000 by a lecture tour, Tennessee put up $50,000 and proud Fentress County pledged $50,000 more. In 1929 the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute opened its doors, offered young mountaineers a respectable...
...Christian Smuts's career were graphed it would look like a broker's nightmare. He has been a lawyer, a politician, a soldier, a rebel, a turncoat, a philosopher, a diplomat. Among his own countrymen he has touched the nadir and the zenith of popularity. During the Boer War the British pursued him with blood in their eye; in the World War they made him a general. Smuts has attracted more hatred from varying sources than any man in South Africa. But through all his ups & downs he has kept the quiet consciousness of duty done. Volume...
...they remained in the Army, limited its award to him who "shall, in action involving actual conflict with an enemy, distinguish himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty." Since under these conditions a Medal-of-Honor soldier generally has to act single-handed and without orders, the War Department makes a painstaking search of all available evidence before it picks its top-notch heroes. This process starts when a field officer first recommends a brave subordinate for a Medal of Honor. The case slowly passes up through...
...killed 25 Germans, with six men captured 132 more; Brig. General Charles E. Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised by General Pershing as the "greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death with a pick and captured three machine-gun nests, all in one afternoon; Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac to block Santiago harbor in 1898; Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, whose ill-fated Arctic expedition in 1881 waged against...