DECORATED - Left to right are Capt. Richard Kight, Lieut. Charles Allen Jr., Sergt. James Cooper and Sergt. Richard Barrett, who have learned that they have been awarded D.F.C.'s for Ferry Command work in South Pacific.
Pacific Press photo

    Four of a crew of eight members of the United States Army Air Force Ferrying Command, Foreign Branch, yesterday learned belatedly that they had been awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses about a week ago.
    The news came when an employee of the Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, where the quartet has been stopping while on official business at the Douglas Aircraft Co., congratulated them.
    The award was made for completing a hazardous flight of 12,000 miles to Java and return, delivering a load of vital equipment.
    En route during a storm off the coast of Africa the radio antenna was struck by lightning and numerous holes were burned in the plane. They were attacked by Japs off Palembang, Sumatra, and were in the midst of bombings in Java, which they left about three weeks before its fall.
    The four members of the crew in Santa Monica are Capt. Richard Kight, Lieut. Charles Allen Jr., Sergt. James Cooper and Sergt. Richard Barrett.
    The other four members of the crew who are now on duty elsewhere are Lieut. K. L. Akins, Lieut. Joseph M. Moe, Technical Sergeant Harry Smith and Staff Sergeant R. Wyncoop.

Source:

Unknown, "Four in Plane-Ferrying Crew Honored for Flight to Java," Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Thursday, 14 May, 1942, p. 3.