Awards and Ranks: Duty Badges

Honoring a hero: a son's final tribute to his father

Lt. Col. Bill Curnutte paused for a quick photograph outside the trailer where he lived at Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam, before taking off for a combat mission. Troy Curnutte, the colonel's son, lobbied the Air Force to present his father a Distinguished Flying Cross for his heroic actions during a January 1969 rescue mission over Laos. (Courtesy photo/Troy Curnutte)

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