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Show France Honors Legion Head 2, v.'r"-"-S''.,vv-.- H I . v ' S' ' N ' -. Marshal Philippe retain (right) decorating Daniel J. Dohcrty of Massachusetts, the new national commander of the American Legion, with the cross of the l egion of Honor during the visit of 2.500 Legionnaires Legion-naires to France recently. A tour of the battlefields, dedication of war memorials and a luncheon at hc Invalided, where Napoleon and Marshal Mar-shal I och arc buried, were major features of the program. The Legiou-aircs Legiou-aircs were guests of Ihe French government, being transported overseas on the g'ant liner Normamlic and quartered in various hotels and pensions pen-sions nt the expense of the French republic in Taris and in towns near the hallle fields. |