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...week's contest, Churchill intervened with an explosive plea for Cavendishes & Coalition: "It would indeed be a disaster if Britain, after the great things she has done, went to pieces and fell into petty squabbles. . . . These by-elections are . . . symbolic and electors by their votes can prove the heroic temper of our island in these tremendous days." Campaigner Hartington bounded from hall to marketplace in the division's 128 towns and villages. He pumped the hands of village mothers, tweaked the noses of their babes in prams, left a wake of amazed comment: "Blimey! Imagine shaking hands with...
...foot soldiers and sailors who note flyers wearing as many as 14 decorations. But something is being done about it. This month President Roosevelt ordered Secretaries Knox and Stimson to formulate regulations for a new medal, the Bronze Star, to be awarded Army, Navy and Marine Corps personnel "for heroic or meritorious service not involving aerial flight," i.e., a sort of Air Medal for ground and surface forces...
Kwajalein, key to the Marshalls, was secure in U.S. hands. The second amphibious attack on Central Pacific atolls had been successful far beyond the first heroic but costly assault on Tarawa and Makin. As they were learning through experience about other phases of war, U.S. forces were improving their amphibious operation. Kwajalein's casualty list was only about half as large as Tarawa...
...engagement with superior heavy English naval units the battleship Scharnhorst, firing until her last round of ammunition was spent, sank after a heroic battle. . . . Considerable damage was inflicted on the convoy and the English escort units...
...Heroic Battle." The British told their story in a clipped communique...