AMERICAN FORCES
AWARD OF DECORATIONS IN MIDDLE EAST
TWO R.A.F. MEN INCLUDED.
GALLANT RESCUES TN FIRE AT AERODROME.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY, September 13. Generals Alexander and Tedder attended a'ceermonial parade at United States Army Headquarters today, states an agency war correspondent, in commemoration of one year’s activities in the Middle East. Decorations were conferred on members of the United States forces. General Alexander personally decorated twelve United States officers and N.C.O’s., while seventeen decorations of the soldiers’ medal were made by General Brereton.
Among the recipients were an Australian member of the R.A.F. and another R.A.F. man. Behind these decorations lies a story of great courage. One morning a United States fourengined bomber crashed into a building on the edge of an aerodrome and caught fire. The petrol tanks exploded and machine-gun cartridges began to go off in the flames. The eight members of the plane’s crew and several persons in the building were left struggling in a sea of flames. Those decorated showed complete disregard for their own safety in entering the burning area and bringing out the injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1942, Page 4
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