AWARDED DFC: 1
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Citation:  1.) The authority contained in Army Regulations 600-45, 22 September 1943, and under the provisions of the Army Air Forces, India Burma Sector Memorandum 75-2, 1 September 1944, the Distinguished Flying Cross is hereby awarded to Roberta S. Ross, First Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps, Flight Nurse, Medical Air Evacuation Squadron, for extraordinary achievement by participating in operational flights totaling more than three hundred hours over Burma, during which enemy attack was probable and expected. These flights, performed in unarmed transport aircraft, were made for the purpose of evacuating by air, sick and wounded personnel from forward areas and were accomplished with industry and a devotion to duty above and beyond that normally expected. Disregarding the hazards of weather, terrain and enemy action faced regularly and continuously, she demonstrated such consideration for her patients and such constant energy as to reflect great credit upon herself and the Army Air Forces of the United States.