D.F.C.
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McAllister used to be a hot jet fighter pilot, won a D.F.C. in Korea.
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It was awarded by an act of Congress, and the first time in 20 years that the D.F.C. has been given to a civilian.
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Ralph Cheli, 23, fair-haired, blue-eyed, had 40 missions and 135 combat hours behind him in New Guinea; he had the D.F.C. and the Air Medal.
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Only two men before him won bars to both the D.S.O. and D.F.C.
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A third showed him the "D.F.C.," or Distinguished Flying Cross.
From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan
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