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e privi-attend-rolls, a ale ser-her de-afficers.AdditionalInformationind her Katrine erwood, rs. Ev-he May ning in , Work knitted 3ked toi.Njrof the Auxil-annual to beow aft-i. R. G.OnCitation*le was le idea . clerk.A special dispatch to the Times-Mirror from the U. S. Ninth Air Force Marauder Station in England provides some additional information concerning announcement in these columns on February 24 that S/Sgt. William P. Pequignot, of Tidioute, had been awarded the army’s highest decor, ation, the Distinguished Flying Cross, along with the Air Medal ! and three Oak Leaf Clusters.Announcement received at that time consisted of a letter to his mother, Mrs. E. O. Pequignot, telling only that he had received the award and “I’m still going strong”.Today’s communication fromheadquarters of the EuropeanTheatre of Operations credits S/Sgt. Pequignot with “extraordinary achievement while participating in bombing missions over enemy-held territory in Europe*’. The citation reads: “For unfalter-ing performance of duty on missions dispatched under hazardous conditions against vitally important enemy installations”.Young Pequignot, who flew as tail gunner on the medium Marauder “A KP’s Dream” on missions to Belgium, Holland and France, was graduated from Tyndall Field gunnery school, Fla. He became a member of the Caterpillar Club, whose entrance requirement is an emergency jump from a distressed airship, when he bailed out of a flaming airplanenear Moody Field, Ga. .during hi*training period.2/3 TRANSPORTIn 1943, railroads than two-thirds of transportation load.BY RAIL carried mor« the nation’*! LIGHTED STAIRS ON THE WAYStairsteps in post-w*ar house* may be lighted by tiny fluorescent lamps, already developed for military use. A penny’s worth of electricity will operate one of these marble-sized lights for six months.Popcorn once formed an entire meal at Colonial luncheons.The Quality Leader
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Warren Times Mirror
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, May 04, 1944
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