Medals

WINGS:

Pilot wings:

Aerial Gunners wings:

Navigator wings:

Flight Engineer wings:

Air Crew wings:

Bombardier wings:

Medals:

Air Medal:

Air Medal ribbon with 3 oak leaf clusters, like most of the men of crew # 30 Gaik should have get. An Air Medal was given after 5 succesful missions; for each other 5 missions one received an oak leaf cluster. Most men of the crew gaik flew 21 missions:

Purple Heart. The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed while serving on or adter April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military: