AWARDED DFC: 1
CONFLICT/SPACE FLIGHT/EVENT:  -
MODEL:  B-17

Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Staff Sergeant Everett L. Thompson for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while serving as Ball Turret Gunner of a B-17 airplane on a number of combat bombardment missions over Germany and German-occupied countries from 1 May 1944 to 27 August 1944.