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...triumph: "The Führer's Headquarters. The German High Command announces: A sub marine commanded by Senior Lieutenant von Billow has sunk in the middle of the North Atlantic the American aircraft carrier Ranger, employed to guard Atlantic convoy routes. The Führer has awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross [of the Iron Cross] to Lieutenant von Bülow, the 234th member of the German armed forces to receive the decoration." That announcement was made April 25, 1943. There must have been some mistake. Last week the Navy Department stated that, since...
...technical sergeant who said he was Stanley Hawrylytz turned up on the first show with a tale of knocking off a igman Jap patrol on Kiska, for which (he said) he got a Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, a Purple Heart and a serious foot wound. He said his home was in Erie, Pa. He wanted a job in Alaska. He got an offer. U.S. Army records later disclosed that his right name was Harvilick, his home address was actually Springboro, Pa., there was no record of overseas service or citations. And there were, of course, no live Japs...
...Forces Major James ("Jimmy") Stewart, on his fifth bombing raid over Europe, wore his new gold oak leaves...
Carmen Jones (music by Georges Bizet; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by Billy Rose) turns the opera that Sir Thomas Beecham once called "the sturdiest oak in the operatic forest" into the most brilliant show on Broadway. If Bizet's Carmen and the all-Negro Carmen Jones live, artistically, on different sides of the railroad tracks, they nevertheless represent the shortest distance between one exciting kind of job and another. Drastic changes have been made. Carmen has been retired in a kiln, not warmed over in an oven. There is no capricious tinkering for tinkering...
Last fortnight Major Ted Cragg, of Greenwich, stepped out in front of the Fifth Fighter Command. Nine times his name was called, medals, stars or Oak Leaf Clusters were pinned to his tunic for each citation. They had been won over a long period, and they made him (with Major Thomas Lynch) the most decorated fighter pilot in the Southwest Pacific...