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WAC* Decorated rfor Saving Child |Somewhere in England, — {(INS)—WAC Lieut. Anne W. 1Tinges, of Weatherbee Road,Towsen, !\Id., has been award- j ed the Purple Heart for injuries _ received while shielding a child j from an exploding enemy p bomb, it w a s announced n by Brigadier General Clarence v P. Kane. Director of Administration of Air Service Com- j mand, IT. S. Strategic Air \ Forces in Europe. cShe is the first WAC officer to i receive this decoration. rAlthough her leg was in bandages for weeks, due to severe* *, cuts from Hying glass. Lieut. Tinges reported ior duly the j morning after she was injured. ; She is one of the six WAC of- , ficors who were given cryto-graphic training at Oxford Uni- j versity and assigned to replace j men at the Signal Center of Air | Service Command.
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Tipton Daily Tribune
Tipton, Indiana, US
Tue, Oct 24, 1944
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