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...decoration was handed out last week at Fort Clark, Tex. It was unofficial and it was for anything but heroism. Inspired by a sergeant's report that soldiers on furlough were talking too much, officers created a paper Maltese cross...
Answering Staff Sergeant Dan Malmuth, U.S.A.A.F., Egypt, whose letter appears in TIME, Dec. 14 ["Woman's place is in the home . . . Keep 'Em Frying!"], Sergeant Malmuth appears to forget that the WAAC is not a Hollywood pressagent's dream, it's formed by the order of the U.S. Army. If it's good enough for General Marshall, it should be good enough...
...Besides, Sergeant Malmuth, I don't know how to knit, but I'm a darn good stenographer...
Three cheers and a huzza for Staff Sergeant Dan Malmuth's letter this week. If a few more of our so-called men had got up on their hind legs and said the same thing a long time ago, all this Waacy-business might have ended up where it belongs-on the junk heap...
Then Captain Rickenbacker told how death came to a 22-year-old sergeant, the only crew member lost. He swallowed salt water when his raft overturned, drank more later, died of saltwater poisoning and starvation. Captain Eddie stared hard at the table in front of him: "On the eleventh night this boy was very low. The waves kept beating over the raft. . . . For two nights I cuddled him like a mother would, hold a child, trying to give him warmth from my body. At 3 a.m. I heard his final gasp. . . ." Then came the rescue by a Navy flying boat...