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Show Wins Commendation Technical Sergeant John M. Kerr, son of John B. Kerr of Wellsville, is an aircraft armorer in a fighter squadron at an Eighth Air Force Figher station which was commended by Brigadier General Jesse Auton, wing commander, com-mander, for the part played in the destruction of 43 enemy aircraft air-craft and damaging of 23 others on a German-held airdrome recently- General Auton pointed out that it required the cooperation coopera-tion of every member of every organization on this field to prepare pre-pare the way for and to support its commanding officer, Colonel Huhert Zemke and his fighter pilots pil-ots on their strafing run over the "enemy airdrome. The mission began as a bomber-escort, but after the bombers had dropped their loads on the enemy airdromes, air-dromes, Colonel Zemke and his pilots raked the area again and again until almost every plane had been either damaged or destroyed. |