The congressional gold medal

[j.sabourn]

Thanks Keith that’s him.just shows how the morals if nothing else of our society have changed and not for the better.there were 3 well known shipowners from the NE who were given government money during the war for the building of small vessels in Blyth. This story is second hand but was well known gossip around the Tyne when I was first st sea. They were building houses instead or as extra to their task given. R,S. Dalgliesh who I worked for is supposedly to have carried the can for the others and got a nominal prison sentence of a couple of months. When I worked for him he had invested in building a jetty in Port Churchill on the Hudson Bay, and the story was he was after a knighthood, However by the rules of the game he would never get due to his character being tainted by his criminal record. The people who accepted these Orders were supposed to be the next things to Saints. Somewhere along the paths of modern enlightenment the stairs have beien descending. Cheers JS

[j.sabourn]

Re American medals , don’t know if has been mentioned , but when Audie Murphy came into the movie business after the war his agent or agents advertised him as the most decorated soldier in the US army. Does anyone know otherwise , I have always believed to be true. JS.

[Keith at Tregenna]

He was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II.

The 5 most decorated troops in American history:

Sgt. Maj. Daniel J. Daly.

Maj. Audie Murphy. Audie L. Murphy, the most decorated US World War II veteran.

Col. Edward V. Rickenbacker.

Lt. Gen. Lewis “Chesty” Puller.

Boatswain's Mate First Class James Williams. James Elliott Williams, winner of the
Medal of Honour during the Vietnam War. US Navy.

K.