Word: palermo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., slightly wounded at Palermo and returned to the U.S. from far-ranging destroyer duty, took command of a patrol vessel after making "a very creditable record" at a subchaser training school in Florida...
Luftwaffe raid on her hotel in Palermo, she sat on the floor in her pink pajamas because falling plaster hurt her feet. She went back to bed before the raid was over...
Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., aboard the destroyer Mayrant at a North African port, was decorated with the Silver Star (for gallantry) and the Purple Heart (for wounds). In a heavy enemy air attack on Palermo last August, he had given first aid to two wounded men on the Mayrant's bridge, carried one of them down to a dressing station "with disregard for his own safety" (TIME, Nov. 1). He was wounded in the hand...
Next day, able Michael Chinigo (International News Service) went into Sicily with assault troops, was wounded in wrist and arm by Nazi shellfire, moved ahead anyway, later entered Messina and Palermo with advanced patrols...
...convoyed North Atlantic freighters, made the "suicide run" to Murmansk and back, turned up smartly for the North African invasion and sank a bothersome Vichyfrench cruiser there. Junkers 88s caught her ten miles off Palermo after the Sicily invasion and almost pounded her to the bottom. She staggered into port and, unable to reply with anything but machine guns, took a stationary beating from German bombers...