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Martin F. Dardis (November 25, 1922 – May 16, 2006〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dardis, Martin F )〕) was an American soldier, policeman, investigator and reporter. As the chief investigator for the Dade County, Florida state attorney in 1972, he was a key figure in the Watergate scandal, linking the Watergate burglars to President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign. He passed this information along to ''Washington Post'' reporter Carl Bernstein.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Martin Dardis: Sergeant, United States Army )〕 Later, as a reporter for ''Sports Illustrated'', he broke the story of baseball player Pete Rose's gambling.〔 ==World War II== Born in Endicott, New York, Dardis dropped out of high school with an eighth grade education. He lied about his age (16) to enlist in the United States Army.〔 During World War II, on December 29, 1944, Dardis was a gunner with the 468th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion in General George Patton's Third Army in the Battle of the Bulge.〔 After twelve hours, Dardis's crew and that of another half-track had shot down four German aircraft with 37-mm cannons and .50 caliber machine guns, while pinned down by aerial bombing and artillery and small arms fire along the Arlon-Bastogne road, for which the other crew were awarded Silver Stars.〔〔 He and his comrades also rescued downed pilot Kenneth H. Dahlberg behind enemy lines;〔 Dahlberg almost shot Dardis before the airman realized he was friendly.〔 Their paths would cross again many years later. By the time he was discharged from the Army in 1945,〔 he had been awarded the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.〔 In 1988,〔 bothered that the other half-track crew had been awarded Silver Stars while his had not,〔 Dardis began researching to build a case, forwarding his findings to the Military Awards Bureau and the Board to Correct Military Injustices.〔 After 18 months of deliberation, a unanimous verdict was reached, and in June 1991, Silver Stars were awarded to Dardis and the four other members of his crew, though two had to be posthumous.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin Dardis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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