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Show Airman Wins Decoration For Heroism Sp4 Glfen A. Palmer, brother bro-ther of Mrs. H. C. Blanken-agle Blanken-agle of LaSal and resident of that town for a short time, was awarded the Distinguished Distinguish-ed Flying Cross for heroism while participating in aerial flights hi Vietnam recently. Sp4 Palmer was given the award after his helicopter crew was scrambled to the si;e of an attack to give aid. As his aircraft made the first pass over the enemy bunkers Specialist Palmer began to place heavy fire on the positions. posi-tions. Although under heavy fire, the helicopter made several sev-eral more passes and Palmer was wounded. Even though he wps hurt, a report stated he continued to fire on the enemy position. His award slated that "His valorous actions ac-tions contributed immeasurably immeasura-bly to the thwarting of enemy ene-my forces." |