The Snapshots in Time Collection
General Orders No. 127 – Distinguished Flying Cross Award Roster, Fourteenth Air Force, China-Burma-India Theater, 11 September 1945
This typewritten General Order, issued by Fourteenth Air Force headquarters on 11 September 1945, formally records the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to airmen of a medium Bombardment Group serving in the China-Burma-India Theater. Listing pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners alongside their combat mission dates, the document reflects the sustained aerial campaign waged against Japanese forces in China through the final year of World War II, just weeks after the war's end. Project: 218362