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...Lieut. Commander Frank W. Fenno won the Distinguished Service Cross. Seventy officers and men of his submarine command were awarded Silver Stars. They got these awards for steering their submarine, loaded with a huge store of gold, silver and other Philippine treasure, from Corregidor through Jap-infested waters to a cruiser that transshipped the precious cargo to San Francisco. But in that prodigious, daring smuggling feat there was one unsung hero...
Approximately 100 men and women were finger-printed, photographed, and examined by doctors last night in Boylston Hall, as they were "processed" in preparation to taking training courses, equipping them to work in the central office of the Interceptor Command...
Emphasizing the importance of the high command official communiques for an understanding of the war, Ernest von Hartz, cable editor for the Chicago Sun, yesterday called for detailed impartial facts in the newspapers of America. Von Hartz, currently attending meetings at the Institute on War Problems, said that "Washington is today the news capital of the nation," but pointed out that no complete understanding of the progress of the war could be gained without thorough attention to the high command communiques of all nations, which have so far proved extremely reliable...
...Temporary command of Gibraltar, Lord Gort's previous post, fell to Major General Sir Colin Jardine, 49, who served under the Tiger with the B.E.F. in France...
...British task force under greying, athletic Admiral Edward Neville Syfret stood off the craggy north end of Madagascar. The landing force was under the command of a veteran of beachhead warfare: lean, aloof Major General Robert Grice Sturges of the Royal Marines, Officer in the "Jollies" since 1912, he had gone through the blistering hell of Gallipoli, had seen British Marines shot to pieces on Belgium's coast in World...