AWARDED DFC: 1
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Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to First Lieutenant Sheppard C. Cummings for extraordinary achievement while participating in heavy bombardment missions and allied operational flights totaling more than three hundred hours during which exposure to enemy fire was probable and expected. These flights, in which they have flown from bases in India, over Burma, Thailand, China and the Andaman Islands, have been eminently successful. The devotion to duty exhibited in the execution of these assignments and the cooperation displayed therein, as an essential and vital part of a combat team, has contributed much to the success characterizing these operations.