Word: commendatione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Quartermaster. Colonel Canella had an unblemished record of 25 years in the Army, 28 letters of commendation from various superiors. No West Pointer. he started his Army career as an ROTC man at the University of Iowa, where he played such violent football that he was dubbed the "Sicilian...
This week the weary men at Anzio got fresh encouragement. Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark, U.S. Commander of the Fifth, sent his troops a message of commendation, told them that heavy reinforcements were reaching the beachhead, predicted that the two forces would meet for "a victorious march into Rome." Best...
On the operations-tent bulletin board at a U.S. advanced fighter base in Italy good news was pinned up last week: an official commendation by Army Air Forces' Chief "Hap" Arnold. Reason for the commendation: the squadron had shot down eight German aircraft in one day, four in another...
Those who received official Letters of Commendation are as follows: Ensigns A.W. Bornfriend, Robert L. Callahan, John D. Gust, Lewis H. Levy, Harry A. Livermore, Claude E. Love, Gordon E. Marks, Virden M. Mitchell, J. Stanley Nants, Benjamin M. Stephens, John R. Taylor, James H. Templin, William P. Trenkle, Don...
Among the first to preach artillery's new possibilities was quiet, pipe-smoking Brigadier General Jesmond Dene Balmer, now Field Artillery School Commandant. Seven months in wartime Washington had taught him that orders are not only to be obeyed but anticipated. Long before the War Department fully realized what...