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WAC Decorated rfor Saving Child ISomewhere in England, — [] (INS)—WAC Lieut. Anne W. j! Tinges, of Weatherbee Road, PTowsen, Md., has Ix'cn award- |; ed the Purple Heart for injuries _ received while shielding a child e from an exploding enemy p bomb, it w a s announced n by Brigadier General Clarence P. Kane. Director of Administration of Air Service Com- j mand, U. S. Strategic Air i Forces in Europe. dShe is the first WAC officer to breceive this decoration. nAlthough her leg was in bandages for weeks, due to severe \ cuts from Hying glass, Lieut. Tinges reported for duty the { morning after she was injured. -She is one of tnc six WAC of- x ficors who were given cryto-graphic training at Oxford Uni- [ versity and assigned to replace \ men at t’.ie Si nal Center of Air •W f._g / V; t JkiSex vice Command.
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Tipton Daily Tribune
Tipton, Indiana, US
Tue, Oct 24, 1944
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