Red Badge of Courage

The tales told at war's end will not all come from men in the fighting forces. Red Cross workers will also contribute their share. This week, as the Red Cross opened its $125,000,000 War Fund Drive, some of those tales began to drift home.

> Twenty-eight-year-old Red Cross Field Director Thomas S. Montgomery could hardly miss being nicknamed "Tiny"—he stands 6 ft. 8 ½ in., weighs a whopping 275 Ib. Too oversized to enlist, he squeezed his bulk into a Red Cross uniform, soon became noted on Guadalcanal for his frontline chant: "Chewing...

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