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The oak lehf cluster in lieu of an additional air medai has been awarded to First Lieutenant William D, Newlon in the South Pacific. Lieutenant Newlon attended the Normal college here from 1938 • to 1911 during which time he was member of the basketball and ixmtball teams of that school. He enlisted in October of 1941, be-wjroing a member of the Army Air force as pilot of a medium • bomber. He has previously been awarded the air medal, returning to the South Pacific combat zones after a rest period in New Zealand after completing 21 combat missions, dropping 45 tons of explosives over Jap-infested territory. He is the son of Mrs. A. C. Erickson of Plentywood.The bronze oak leaf cluster is awarded for meritorious achievement while participating in sustained combat operational mis-'mons of a hazardous nature dur-Lng which enemy opposition is imet, or during which an area is 'traversed where enemy antiaircraft fire is effective or where enemy fighter patrols are habitually encountered. The mission for which the award was given was with the 13th AAF.
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Dillon Daily Tribune
Dillon, Montana, US
Tue, Jul 11, 1944
Page 4
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