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...Suzy-Q, won his 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...
...colonel's eagles. He went from the ranks to become a flying cadet, got his commission and his pilot's wings in 1939. He received the D.F.C. for flying a Fortress with the famed 19th Bombardment Group to the Philippines in September 1941, added an Oak Leaf Cluster for bombing a Jap battleship Jan. 9, 1942. Six weeks later in Java he earned a Silver Star by saving a fellow officer in the face of enemy fire, later got an Oak Leaf Cluster to add to that medal. News of Colonel Reiser's death has probably...
...Field awards, not yet reported to Washington, will greatly increase this figure. †t Most decorated U.S. citizen is Douglas Mac-Arthur: Medal of Honor, D.S.C. with Oak Leaf Cluster, D.S.M. with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, Silver Star with six Oak Leaf Clusters. He won the Medal of Honor in World...
...plans and orders that kill enemies. And being Chief of Staff to visionary General Douglas MacArthur is the job of one of the hardest-working men in the U.S. Army: quiet, lean, handsome Major General Richard K. Sutherland, whom the War Department last week rewarded with an Oak Leaf Cluster "for gallantry in action" to add to his Silver Star. His staff work at Corregidor had already won him the coveted D.S.M...
Sales $36,000,000. When war broke out Interstate's parts business soared anew, its little Cadet was ordered by the hundreds for the Government pilot-training program. Meanwhile Smith and Navy engineers sweated hours over a bigger & batter plane, finally got one. Last May a cluster of Navy aviation experts flew to the little El Segundo plant, ogled a radically designed plywood plane. The Navy promptly placed huge orders. To take care of the rush, Smith expanded into Los Angeles, leased a huge furniture plant at De Kalb, Ill., handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers...