Four Chaplains Awarded Posthumous Distinguished Service Cross
Army announces posthumous Distinguished Service Crosses for four chaplains who gave life jackets to shipmates aboard the Dorchester after it was torpedoed near Greenland on February 3, 1943. Poling Fox Washington Goode, representing Protestant Catholic Jewish faiths, aided survivors as they handed out life belts and linked arms to pray during the sinking. Decorations will be presented to next of kin at Fort Myer, Virginia, on December 19 by Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Dorchester
Greenland
Clark V. Poling
Schenectady
N. Y
Alexander D. Goode
Theresa F. Goode
George L. Fox
George Fox
Chicopee Falls
Mass
Poling
Fox
Goode
Brehon Somervell
Army Service Forces
Fort Myer
Brooklyn Cruiser Returns Home After Mediterranean Invasions
The light cruiser U S S Brooklyn sailed from Cannes to New York after three Mediterranean invasions. Captain Frank R. Dodge said the crew failed to shell Monte Carlo as German forces had left and casino crowds were gone. The ship trailed American troops along the French coast, and its crew noted the mission’s quiet end near the casino town.
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NEW York
U.S.S. Brooklyn
Monte Carlo
Frank R. Dodge
Adrian, Mich
Philadelphia
New York Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Cannes
France
Le Clerc Proclamation Not Enforced In Strasbourg
Paris AP reports Major Jacques le Clerc never carried out his threat to execute five German hostages for every French soldier shot. No hostages were taken and le Clerc’s division moved to new field operations. Strasbourg remains under military and civil authority.
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Paris
Ger Jacques le Clerc
Strasbourg
le Clerc
World War I Posters On Display At Century Engineering
A large collection of World War I posters collected by Royal Holbrook is on display in the five window bays of Century Engineering at the southwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Third Street SE. The exhibit features recruiting posters from Britain, Czechoslovakia, and the United States along with Liberty Loan drive art and designs for war welfare agencies including the World War I Camp Community Service Y M C A Jewish Welfare Fund and the National Catholic War Council.
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Royal Holbrook
Second Avenue
Century Engineering Corporation
Fourth Avenue
Third Street
Great Britain
Czechoslovakia
United States
Liberty Ioan
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Iowa
Mary Miles
Lowe
Ni.ss
Treo
Virgin Wool
Rica
Rio Tan
Nashua
Tucker Tommy
DuPont
Funny Bunny
Ducky
Lucky
Lelax
Grt
Paisley
Mary Kirk
RAF
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