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These were just a few of the promotions and honors that grow in significance each day Bataan continues to withstand the Jap's assaults. Two were in a class by themselves: Second Lieutenant Alexander Ramsey ("Sandy") Nininger Jr., posthumously honored with World War II's first Congressional Medal of Honor for "intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty" (TIME, Feb. 9), and Captain Colin P. Kelly (TIME, Dec. 22), who was awarded a posthumous D.S.C.