AWARDED DFC: 1
CONFLICT/SPACE FLIGHT/EVENT:  -
MODEL:  B-29

Citation:  1.) The Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight 22 June 1945. These individuals were combat crew members of a B-29 aircraft flying on a daylight bombing attack from a base in the Marianas against the Kawanishi aircraft company plant at Hime ji, Japan. The approach to the target was made in the face of closely-pressed fighter attacks and accurate flak. Despite these hazards, they maintained a close formation, dropping their bombs with great accuracy. Post-strike photographs showed that the entire factory was either destroyed or damaged. Each member of this crew coordinated his efforts in a superior manner to obtain these outstanding resutls. The skill, courage, and airmanship demonstrated by these veterans of repeated assaults against the Japanese homeland reflect great credit on themselves and the Army Air Forces.