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Show EIGHTEEN HOURS IN WATER Philip Burger, Legion Man of Troy, Wears Decoration From Portuguese Portu-guese Qovernmant. Spending eighteen hours holding to the edge of a life raft in icy water after saving a shipmate's life, made Philip J. Burger eligible for the unusual honor of a decoration dec-oration from the Portuguese government gov-ernment and the American D 1 s -tinguished Service Serv-ice medal. Burger ( w a s a second j class gunner's i mate on the' rl American destroyer Jacob Jones, when she was torpedoed by a German submarine sub-marine off Lands End, England, in December, De-cember, 1917. Burger and the shipmate whose life he saved were among the few survivors picked up by a British warship after eighteen hours in tire water. He is now receiving vocational training in his home city, Troy, N. Y., and is a mainstay in the Noble Callahan Calla-han post of the American Legion at Troy. |