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Sgt. Glenn E. Tutt


 

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Marathon, Ia.—Sgt. Glenn E. Tutt of Marathon has been awarded the air medal for “meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight against the enemy.” The 22-year-old bombardier on a 15th air force Flying Fortress in Italy, enlisted in the army December 15, 1943, and was graduated from the armament school at Lowry field, Colo., and the aerial gunnery school at Kingman, Ariz.  Serving with the oldest heavy bombardment group in the Mediterranean theater of operations, Sgt. Tutt has flown eight combat sorties.

Source:  The Sioux City Journal, April 23, 1945

Glenn Earl Tutt was born July 23, 1922 to Earl and Emma Blomquist Tutt. He died Apr. 16, 2006 and is buried in Poland Township Cemetery, Marathon, IA.

Source: ancestry.com