World War II Chronicle

World War II Chronicle: June 27, 1942

Chris Carter

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The front page reports that John Finn has been awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor… Lt. Gen. Hap Arnold was at Bolling Field to decorate several Doolittle Raiders…

Lt. Gen. “Hap” Arnold pins the Distinguished Flying Cross on Capt. Travis Hopper as Brig. Gen. Doolittle (left of Arnold) looks on.

The Army put on a display for Winston Churchill at Fort Jackson, S.C. (see page five) The British prime minister took in a paratrooper demonstration with Brig. Gen. William C. Lee, the “Father of the U.S. Army Airborne…”

George Fielding Eliot column on Egypt on page 11… Sports section begins on page 16. A Lewis Atchinson column recalls when Chief Petty Officer Rabbit Maranville 1Maranville is currently serving in his second world war, in Gene Tunney’s physical fitness program quarterbacked the USS Pennsylvania‘s football team. Maranville also played shortstop for the battleship’s baseball team. He played for the Boston Braves before and after the World War and finally hung up his cleats in 1935.

Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 27 June 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1942-06-27/ed-1/

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    Maranville is currently serving in his second world war, in Gene Tunney’s physical fitness program

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