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Navy & Marine Corps Medal. Navy, 72; Marines, 2. Sample citation (to Shipfitter William Stanley Thomas) : "He went to the assistance of Commander F. Rohow, who had been injured [in the Pearl Harbor attack] and was floating in the water in a state of shock. He kept the Commander afloat until rescued...
...figured he threw about 300 lead punches. Out of ammunition, the men in the crater crouched and prayed. At dawn the prize fighter jumped out under cover of a cloud of smoke and, "half crawling and half walking," helped get the wounded to the rear. His purse: shell shock, malaria, minor shrapnel wounds, a corporal's rank, recommendation for a distinguished service award. His only complaint: "No referee to break the clinches...
...Oberlin's chemistry department, has long worked on vitamins and body chemistry, was first to isolate pure vitamin A in crystalline form (TIME, April 26, 1937). In an interview last fortnight he listed other recent uses for vitamin C: intravenous injection of one gram in solution for shock (another instance when blood histamine is high); in wound healing; for insomnia; in treating industrial workers exposed to toxic dusts. If people taking vitamin C by mouth are troubled by its acid reaction, he advises them to mix a little bicarbonate of soda with...
...been quite a year for the air shock troops. For a while the war was Japan v. the 19th. There had been times when the group was so badly battered-in the Philippines, in Java, in Australia-that not a plane could be got off the ground. But the Flying Fortresses over Europe and Africa fly better today because of what the 19th learned...
...north coast of New Guinea was indicated by the price they were willing to pay for reinforcements. In ten days MacArthur's planes sank a cruiser, six destroyers and two landing boats. Some reinforcements did land. The advancing Allies found among their newest slaughter Japanese Marine shock troops with new uniforms and well-filled bellies...