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Veteran receives Distinguished Service Cross

Maj. Gen. Floyd Carpenter, vice commander of 8th Air Force, shakes the hand of Walter T. Holmes Feb. 2 after presenting him with the second-highest military award, the Distinguished Service Cross. The award is being presented 65 years after Mr. Holmes and his fellow B-24 pilots performed low-level bombing missions over the Ploesti oil refineries in Rumania during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Joanna M. Kresge)

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