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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Lieutenant

    Batallion:

    Bombing Squadron 6 (VB-6)

    Action Date:

    November 19, 1943 – February 16, 1944

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 345 (December 1945)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Robert C. Shaw, United States Naval Reserve, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of a carrier-based dive bomber in Bombing Squadron SIX (VB-6), over the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and Truk, 19 November 1943 to 16 February 1944.