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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Ensign

    Batallion:

    Patrol Bombing Squadron 119 (VPB-119)

    Action Date:

    March 3 – May 15, 1945

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

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Ensign Robert Marion Cahow (NSN: 0-355364), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Co-Pilot of a Naval airplane in Patrol Bombing Squadron ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN (VPB-119), in action against the Japanese from 3 March 1945 to 15 May 1945.