"I know that Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is a hero," said War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds, returned from Italy a month ago. His statement was made last week after Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell revealed the wounding of young Roosevelt off Palermo.
In Palermo harbor Reynolds found a destroyer (nickname: "The Mighty May") battered to a pulp, low in the water, listing badly. He boarded it and asked for the executive officer. A sailor said: "Who, Big Pancho? . . . That's him. The big guy in dungarees."
Big Pancho turned out to be...
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