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Show WOMAN SAVED BY LEGiQAl .MAN Mississippi Lieutenant Awarded French Medal of Honor and Life Saving Emblem. A woman caught in a jam of civil- lans fleeing a town In the war zone of France was forced over the " parapet of a bridge, falling in-" in-" to a stream 70 s?T feet below. Sever-i' Sever-i' al French officers looked on In nor- ror, but a young ji&C American officer f without hesitation ST-," ' leaped after the f ' f submerged worn- ) L-i- id! nn' br,ns,ng h" S to the surface and ( safely landing her on the shore. t The hero was George A. Duuagln r who at the time was a lieutenant in the liaison service of the United States army. For his bravery he was award- j ed the French medal of honor and the j Congressional life saving medal. 1 Today, Dunagln is in charge of the Shreveport (La.) sub-station of the United States Veteran's bureau In Paris and London, and was assigned by the American Legion to assist General Gen-eral Dawes In the Investigation of the needs of disabled ex-service men. Dunagln was born at Laurel, Miss., and was educated at the Mississippi A. & M. College. His military service, ser-vice, which, after an Injury sustained in a machine gun accident, was In the diplomatic corps, took him to seventeen seven-teen European countries. |