AMERICAN MEDAL
AWARDED TO NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, June 9. R. C. Buchanan, D.F.C., of Invercargill, who has been awarded the United States Air Medal, has been flying longrange Mosquitoes on photographic reconnaissances. He carried out over sixty operations in one year over Germany and German-occupied territories, including Norway. He went to North Africa with the invasion convoy and remained there. He was invested with the medal by General Spaatz for the work he had done for the United States Army early in the campaign. Buchanan was then temporarily attached to a squadron led by Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, a son of President Roosevelt. Buchanan is one of the first five officers of the R.A.F. to receive this decoration.
Buchanan received an immediate award of the D.F.C. last March for surprising two Italian cruisers and photographing them almost at mast height.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1943, Page 4
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149AMERICAN MEDAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1943, Page 4
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