Pottawattamie County

Robert W. Billmire

 

 

 

 

WINS AIR MEDAL, TWO CLUSTERS

Flight Officer Robert W. Billmire has been awarded the air medal with two oak leaf clusters and the presidential citation, according to a letter received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Billmire, 1232 Crescent Drive. Flight Officer Billmire, a bombardier on a B-24 Liberator, is serving as a guide over Germany. He also informed his parents that he was taking a course in agriculture under the army program.

Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Monday, May 21, 1945, Page 5