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Show Fairview Soldier Gits Distinguished Flying Cross Candidate Loren Eugene Hamilton Ham-ilton of Fairview has been a-warded a-warded the distinguished Flying Cross for outstanding ability, courage and devotion to the duty of his country, according to word received at Fairview, Utah. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Loren Hamilton of Fairview, Utah. The citation read as follows: For extraordinary achievement while participating in fifty operational op-erational flight missions in the southwest Pacific Area during which hostile contact was probable prob-able and expected. These operations opera-tions included missions for dropping drop-ping supplies to advanced outposts, out-posts, transporting troops and e-quipment e-quipment to forward areas and evacuating wounded personnel. The flights were made in unarmed un-armed transport airplanes, flying fly-ing at low altitudes over mountainous moun-tainous terrain under adverse weather conditions. Landing in improvised airfields within a few miles of enemy positions were frequent. Throughout the operations, outstanding ability, courage and devotion to the duty was displayed. Mr. Hamilton enlisted January 9th, 1942, and was on his way to Austrailia on March 9th, of the same year. He is now attending Officers Candidate School, somewhere in Austrailia. He was in Findland on a Swedish mission for the LDS church when Finland declared war on Russia in 1939. |