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 Lieutenant Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight in twenty-five (25) sorties against the enemy in Europe and North Africa, 17 August 1942 to 13 January 1943.