Malcolm W. Buckner Malcolm W. Buckner
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First Lieutenant Malcolm W. Buckner, Bertram, Texas, a pilot, on a four-engined B-24 Liberator bomber, has recently been awarded the Air Medal for "courage, coolness and skill displayed while participating in bombing missions over Germany and Occupied Europe". He is a member of the oldest Liberator heavy bombardment group in the Eighth Air Force. Besides the Air Medal, Lieutenant Buckner also wears the Distinguished Unit Ribbon. His group won a citation from the War Department for action in the historic, low-level assault on the Ploesti Oil Fields in Rumania on August 1, 1943. The Bertram airman participated in the historic D-Day "umbrella" support given the assault troops by the Eighth Air Force "heavies" during and following the Normandy Beach-head landings. |
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