U.S. At War: Service Stars

In the great debating days before Pearl Harbor, isolationist critics of President Roosevelt liked to declaim: "How would you like your own sons to go to war?" Last week all four Roosevelt sons were deep in the war on many fronts—and doing well.

Major James, 34, the Marine Corps disclosed last week, had been bombed and strafed on an inspection trip to the Middle East last May, was under fire again in the Battle of Midway. He may be in the bitter, bloody Solomon Island offensive, dopesters said.

Lieut. Colonel Elliott, 31, of the Air Corps, had a close brush with the Luftwaffe...

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