Awarded Us Medal
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Mr. Dwight Long, famous pre-war for sailing a small boat around the world, left San Francisco in March for the Pacific, and is believed to be now m Tahiti.
Ben Bele, a native of Savo Island, BSI, who won the United States Medal of Freedom during the war. When a US airman was forced down into the sea off Savo Island in November, 1942, Bele led a small group of Savo men in canoes to his rescue. Later Bele gave the air man first-aid treat ment and hid and fed him until he could arrange for the airman’s return to his base.