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 Second Lieutenant Joseph J. Bonner for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flights totaling more than three hundred hours in unarmed, heavily loaded transport airplanes, during which exposure to enemy fire was probable and expected. During the periods indicated, they have completed flights from bases in Upper Assam, providing food, clothing, mail, medicinal supplies and material to our forward elements, and to those of our Indian, British and Chinese Allies. Undaunted by the hazards faced regularly and continuously, they performed their duties in such a manner that the highest credit is reflected upon themselves and the military forces of the United States.