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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Lieutenant, Junior Grade

    Batallion:

    Patrol Bombing Squadron 104 (VPB-104)

    Action Date:

    December 12, 1944

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

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant, Junior Grade Joseph Daniel Shea, United States Naval Reserve, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Patrol Plane Commander of a Navy Liberator, Patrol Bombing Squadron ONE HUNDRED FOUR (VPB-103), on a search patrol over Brunei Bay area of northwest Borneo, on 12 December 1944.