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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Ensign

    Batallion:

    Patrol Bombing Squadron 130 (VPB-130)

    Action Date:

    November 7, 1944 – February 2, 1945

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 352 (July 1946)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Ensign James W. McCaslin (NSN: 0-354655), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Co-Pilot of a Navy airplane in Patrol Bombing Squadron ONE HUNDRED THIRTY (VPB-130) in the Pacific area from 7 November 1944 to 2 February 1945.