Recipients

Kenneth Gradle received a Silver Star for actions during the first American counteroffensive in the Pacific in April 1942, a week before the Doolittle Raid…

Donald Strother was killed in action five days after his DSC mission, on February 13, 1942. Strother Field in Cowley County, Kansas, is named in…

Richard Jaccard was subsequently declared Missing in Action after an air mission on September 16, 1943.