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Next in line from 1945 were James E. McNulty, Jr. of Eliot House and Oak Park, Illinois with 147, and a tie of 123 votes between Sidney O. Smith, Jr. of Kirkland House and Gainesville, Georgia, and Peter Garland of Lowell House and Buzzards...
...oak-bearded hills were heavy with wet and the rain and sleet gathered great churning white heads and came roaring down. Swollen rivers rose first in the Pittsburgh industrial regions, then in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama...
...wear a 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...
Still tops in World War II is the score of late Lieut. Colonel Werner Molders, designated "Ace of Aces" by Hitler, decorated with the diamond-encrusted insignia of the Oak Leaves with Swords of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He shot down, according to the Germans, 103 planes, then was killed in the crash of a plane in which he was a passenger...
...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...