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! VOLUME III5 Number 4
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IKE TURNED DOl’/N MEDAL OF HONOR
Nsw York (AFPS) - Gen# Dwight D#
Eisenhower refused to accept the
Congressional Medal Of Honor while
•Supreme Allied Commander in Europe,
arguing that ’’this has got to re
main a medal for the soldier who
•■comes to grips with the enemy at
closer quarters," the First U. S.
Army has revealed#
Eisenhower was said to nave taicen
the initiative to forestall the a
ward when he learned that ho was be
ing considered for the nation’s high
est military decoration*
Later, -when President, Eisenhower
presented the Medal of Honor to a
young war hero and; "Son I would
rather have the right to wear this
than be the President of the United
States*
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4 February 1963
NAVY LAUNCHES 2 MORE' POLARIS-FIRING
A-SUDS
Washington (AFPS) - The Navy launched
two additional Polaris-firing submarines
— the Nathan Hale and the John Adams -
during the early part of January*
The Nathan Hale was launched at the
yards of the Electric Boat Division,
General Dynamics Corp., Groton, Conn.
The John Adams was sent down the ways
at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in
New Hampshire*
Doth vessels are of the advanced
Lafayette class, 425 feet long and dis
placing 7,000 tons when fully loaded.
VIRGINIA TEENAGER INVENTS 'SUN-STICK*
SURVIVAL COiMPASS
Washington (AF?S) - A 17 year-old.
Falls Church, Va., boy has developed a
new method of direction finding to guide
people who are lost and have no comp'.ss,
Bob Qwendoff's method has already boon
officially recognized by the Army ana too Air force wno tcacn tne metnon m
their survival training manuals.
The method, called "shadow tip" by its inventor, works with the help of a
three foot stake driven in the ground. The tip of its shadow is me <.k»v]0 After
waiting ton minutes or longer a mark is made where the shadow 15p na~> moved,,
A line drawn through these two tip marks will always run east and west# The'
second mark is in the eastwardly direction.