AWARDED DFC: 1
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Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Second Lieutenant Alfonso B. Perez for extraordinary achievement by participating in combat missions totalling more than two hundred hours during which exposure to enemy fire was probable and expected. These flights, in which they have flown from bases in India and China over Burma, Thailand and the Andeman Islands have been eminently successful. By deligent attention to duty and superior execution of their assignment as members of a combat team in heavy bombardment aircraft, they have as vital parts thereof, contributed much to the success of many missions. The operations in which they have flown constitute acts of extraordinary achievement in aerial flight and reflect the highest credit on the military forces of the United Statea.