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Major General Carl Spaatz awards Major Charles Kegelman, Lieutenant Randall M Dorton, Sergeant Robert Golay and Sergeant Bennie Cunningham of the 301st Bomb Group with medals. Image stamped on reverse: 'London News Agency.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 13 Jul 1942.' [stamp] and '210048.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'U.S.A. Airmen Heroes decorated .The awards to the American airmenwho took part in the big raid on Germany and occupied countries [a censor has ammended this to say occupied Holland] recently were presented today O.P.S., Major Charles Kelman being decorated by Maj Gen Spaatz R to L: 2nd Lt Randall M Dorton, Sgt Robert Golay and Sgt Bennie Cunningham.'
Group
Activated 3-February-1942 at Geiger Field, Washington and equipped with B-17s. On 27-May-1942 the ground unit moved to Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico, and the aircraft went to Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), California for...
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator
Military | Technical Sergeant | Flight engineer
Assigned to 301BG.
Awards: DFC.
Military | Major | Pilot
Kegelman received the Distinguished Service Cross for the 8th Air Force's first bombing action over Europe on 4 July 1942. The right propeller of his Douglas Boston was shot away by flak while over the target at De Koog. Further ground fire caused...
Military | General | Commanding General, 8th Air Force
A few weeks after Pearl Harbor, in January 1942, General Spaatz was assigned as chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command at Washington and promoted to the temporary rank of major general. In May 1942, Spaatz was designated commander of the Eighth Air...
4 July 1942
Bomber Command War Diaries:
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Military site : airfield
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 02 February 2015 10:00:19 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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IWM, Roger Freeman Collection |
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