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- NATION, Page 35American NotesTHE ARMYAn Honor Denied
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- Though some of his fellow soldiers say he single-handedly
- saved his battalion by killing 600 Japanese soldiers during a
- 21-hour siege on New Guinea in 1942, Sergeant David Rubitsky was
- never awarded the Medal of Honor. Jewish groups and veterans'
- organizations claim that anti-Semitism was the reason. Last
- week, after a two-year inquiry, an Army review board ruled that
- Rubitsky was not entitled to the medal. Lieut. Colonel Terrence
- Adkins, who led the inquiry, said Rubitsky's exploits "did not
- occur as alleged." An investigator described as "fraudulent" a
- photo with Japanese inscriptions declaring that "600 fine
- soldiers died because of a solitary American soldier." Rubitsky,
- 72, a retired merchant seaman from Milton, Wis., maintains, "It
- did happen. I think there is some sort of cover-up."
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