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Show Receives Air Medal "Flying at night as well as by day, at high altitude, over impassable im-passable mountainous terrain thru areas characterized by extremely trecherous weather conditions necessitating long periods of operation on operation on instruments instru-ments . . requiring courageous and superior performance of his duties, he accomplished his mission mis-sion with distinction . . That was the gist of the citation given with the Air Medal to FO Walter B. Hail, son of Mrs. Leda Hail of St. George. He has had more than 150 hours of operational opera-tional flight in transport aircraft over the dangerous and difficult India-China air routes, where enemy interception was expected. |