HAZARDOUS FLIGHT
MADE BY UNITED STATES AIRMEN. WAR DEPARTMENT AWARDS DECORATIONS/ (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 7. The War Department has awarded decorations for courage, judgment and skill to eight officers and men for a hazardous and difficult flight, in a bomber, from Washington to Java, on an urgent and vital mission. At Palembang the plane and crew were bombed by the Japanese. Cross-, ing the Pacific they encountered severe electrical storms. The citations included Pilot Lieutenant Richard Kight, Co-Pilot Lieutenant Kenneth Akins, and navigators Lieutenant Allen and Second Lieutenant .John Moe.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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