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Newspaper 1st Lt Richard G Bull Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple HeartEntry/Object ID
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Richard G BullScope and Content
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First Lt. Richard Bull whom we met several years ago when he was a CAP cadet and protege of the late Mabel Clemson has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and four air medals for his service with the Eighth Fighter-Bomber Wing in Korea . . . It was Dick who patterned a surprise maneuver of the Eighth Wing by which six jets attacked an enemy column of 90 trucks and 10 tanks . . . Official count, as reported by Wing headquarters, was 40 trucks destroyed, 20 damaged; one tank destroyed, two damaged . . .
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A year ago Lt. Bull designed a movie camera mount for a T-33 jet, which was adopted for general use by the Air Force . . . An aviation enthusiast since he was knee high (he used to display model planes in the area), Dick is the son of Lindon D. Bull of Middletown . . . His mother, Mrs. Genevieve G. Bull, formerly was associated with Lydia Dayton at the Business School here . . . She is now a commercial teacher in the high school at Monroe . . . Dick is married to the former Lee Boute of Morgantown, West Virginia, who is chief hostess at the Naval Officers Club at Bethesda Naval Hospital . . .
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Richard Bull Distinguished Flyng Cross Medal
Richard Bull Purple Heart Medal
