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j nat is i.ne question wmmiuhv;Transcript, Hartford).AIR MEDAL AWARDED CAPT. FRANK MURPHY, ATLANTA PARISHIONER(Special to The Bulletin)ATLANTA, Ga. — An Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters awarded to Capt. Frank D. Murphy, now held a prisoner of war in Germany, has been presented to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael V. Murphy, by Capt. Charles F. Light of the U. S. Army Air Base in Atlanta.The Air Medal was for five consecutive missions over enemy held Europe, and the clusters were in lieu of medals for each addition five missions successfully completed.Captain Murphy, a native of Atlanta, is a member of the Sacred Heart parish. He was educated at the Sacred Heart Parochial School and Marist College, and was in his junior year at Emory University when he entered the Army Air Forces in 1942.He arrived overseas in June, 1943, and participated in bombing missions over Norway, France and Germany, serving as squadron navigator. He was shot down over Munster, Germany, October 10, on his twenty-first mission.His parents have received a communication from him in which he said: “We had a little bad luck and had to bail out of our ship. Was slightly wounded, but am coming along all right/*MRS. BERTHA BUCKLEY, SAVANNAH PARISH MEMBER.
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Monroe Bulletin
Monroe, Georgia, US
Fri, Mar 31, 1944
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