Distinguished Flying Cross

Despite his young age, he was hardly an inexperienced flyer.

He had served during World War II with the 440th Troop Carrier Group and had received the Distinguished Flying Cross, an air medal with three oak leaf clusters.

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he was in an air battalion on D-Day.

Rather than release the glider early to regain control of the plane again by dropping weight, he continued on his mission and released the glider in the targeted area, Mantel, then returned to base and somehow managed to land.

Afterwards, engineers commented that the plane which Mantle had flown and landed was so badly damaged that it was unable to fly.

For this, Mantle was given the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroic acts of bravery.

Thomas Mantle was both a brave and outstanding pilot.

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He served in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard flying 175 combat missions in Southeast Asia and earning six Distinguished Flying Crosses and 11 Air Medals.

He later held senior roles with Booz Allen, Hamilton, General Dynamics, and other national level initiatives.

Through Jobonomics, he has focused on creating startup businesses and economic opportunities in under-resourced communities.

She spent nine months in the hospital recovering after that, broken cheekbone, skull fracture, shoulder and wrist, broken.

And the first female recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross And she'll be honored today in Cheyenne, recognized by South Korea.

Can you imagine? She was rescued by the way, first to her in the churning sea was a Japanese fishing vessel.

Remember she had served in World War II.

I, um, lay out in this book about how this is something that, uh, my father's suicide really drove me into, um, what I call a long run, an odyssey, a journey to, to understand him, and by understanding him, trying to understand myself.

And in fact, I've really started to think about this more clearly as I wrote the book, that it really was, I think, what drove me into journalism, which is a career of asking the same question over and over again: Why? And I have a greater appreciation for him after gathering those records and those documents and speaking with my family to understand that he was somebody who was extraordinarily brave, um, fighting in over 300 combat missions over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, in often harrowing circumstances in combat, and was highly decorated, receiving two Distinguished Flying Crosses, more than 13...

excuse me, 15 Air Medals.

Um, so I learned a lot about him in the process of reporting the book, and have a greater appreciation, um, and admiration for him.

Four million people turned out for a ticker tape parade in New York that has never been matched.

He received the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Orteig Prize, though he had spent more than the prize money just getting to the starting line.

Passenger traffic on American Airlines surged in the months after his flight.

Private investment poured into aircraft manufacturers.

Yeager, who was not a man who handed out compliments casually, said she was one of the finest natural pilots he had ever flown with.

She received the Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, the Harmon Trophy.

Awarded to the world's outstanding aviator year after year, the French Legion of Honor.

More citations from more organizations in more countries than most pilots accumulate across several lifetimes.

was growing up.

My great uncle won the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar in Bomber Command.

All the kids at school would be reading what we called trash mags, which were magazines about the Second World War.

And the movies that we watched every Friday night at prep school and school were all the great Second World War movies, the black and white ones.

The president at the time, President Hoover, even awarded her a gold medal from the National Geographic Society.

She was the first woman to earn the Distinguished Flying Cross, which was a big deal because this was a military medal only given to men who had done, quote, "acts of heroism," end quote.

Amelia would often return from flights to giant parades in her honor, and by 1935, Amelia Earhart was one of the most well-known names in the entire world.

Not only was she known for, like, flying, right, but she was kind of an it girl in pop culture.

After the transatlantic crossing, Lindbergh went on to become one of the most famous people in the world.

He received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Orteg Prize.

He was celebrated everywhere he went.

Corrigan spent the years after 1927 doing contract flying and instructing and working as a mechanic and slowly, patiently modifying his $310 airplane and being told no by the people who were supposed to approve his dream.