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Last week the world was made well aware that the storm-lashed British Empire had a man of valor at her helm. In Britain's blackest night since the Spanish Armada lay off her coast in 1588, Prime Minister Winston Churchill not only spoke words of courage but matched them with action. In less than seven days Great Britain's tireless old firebrand changed the character ot Allied warmaking from one of defend & wait to one of dare & strike, although the German onslaught made daring & striking seem more necessity than inspiration. The Prime Minister's week...
...college or immediately afterward. Of all who enlisted, more than half saw service in France or at sea in the face of the enemy--a proportion far larger than that of the army and navy as a whole. In proportion to members, too, there were far more decorations for valor awarded to our classmates. Many of us were wounded. Some were taken prisoner. And twenty-eight of our class died of wounds or disease or accident--or outright in the blast of action...
...natural air fighter, quick-thinking, resourceful, ruthless. Although the story of how he spared the life of an enemy flier whose machine gun jammed is legend in Germany today, he accounted for 36 enemy planes. He won the Iron Cross and Germany's highest decoration for valor, Pour le Mérite. He was wounded in 1915 and again disobeyed orders, by returning directly to the front instead of reporting to a reserve squadron. After the death of Manfred von Richthofen and his successor, a Captain Reinhard, Göring took command of Richthofen's famed Circus. Ordered...
...thank all of you, officers, non-commissioned officers and men, but I wish especially to stress the self-sacrificing valor of our officers of the reserve, their sense of duty and the cleverness with which they have fulfilled a task which was not originally theirs. Thus theirs has been the greatest sacrifice in this war in proportion to their numbers, but it was made joyfully and with unflinching devotion to duty...
...Taken, in scholarly fashion, from the Greek classical hero Ajax, son of Telamon, who fought with high-helmed valor before Troy...