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...from the South Seas came a different note: For "heroic action at the risk of their own safety," General Douglas MacArthur awarded the Soldier's Medal to Negro Privates Julius Franklin of Charleston, S.C., Harvey Crandle of Greenville, N.C., and James Scott of Montgomery, Ala. Their deed: plunging through deadly gasoline flames to save a pilot from a burning plane...
...halls of Congress up rose Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee, to tell what his Military Affairs subcommittee thought of cargo planes and the men who scoffed at them. Senator Lee had always been an Administration stalwart, slow to criticize an official word or deed. Now his words sounded as if a new, fighting spirit were abroad on Capitol Hill...
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Choice No. 2 was to open the second front now, with whatever was available in Britain. That was what the civilian voices of Britain and the U.S. demanded. They asked for the deed without being certain that the tools were on hand, for they had caught the desperation of the Russians...
...place last November. While Lieut. Kauffman, R.N., was on leave in the U.S., the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy then found Draper Kauffman's eyes and experience good enough for war. Last week Secretary Knox awarded Lieut. Kauffman, U.S.N., the Navy Cross for exceptional heroism. His deed: unloading and examining a live, 500-lb. Japanese bomb which failed to explode when it hit an Army field in Hawaii last...