The Jewish Welfare Board today reported that T/Sgt. Herman Sachnoff, 26, of Chicago, now home after a year of intensive air combat across North Africa from Egypt to Tunisia, holds a dozen decorations; the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Silver Star, the Air Medal with seven Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf Cluster. With the first American crews to land in Africa, Sergeant Sachnoff, a radio operator and technician, fought through forty-eight combat missions and was wounded when his craft, a B-25, was hit by flak.
Capt. Harold M. Jaffe, 26 of the Bronx, has been awarded an Air Medal, four Oak Leaf Clusters and a Distinguished Flying Cross, the Jewish Welfare Board also reports. Returned from the Mediterranean area after fifty combat missions, Captain Jaffe is now on duty in this country. He was navigating a Flying Fortress on the African front.
Capt. Philip M. Adler, 28, of Lebanon, Ind., combat pilot serving in the China theatre, has been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, and Purple Heart according to another Jewish Welfare Board report. The Adlers are the only Jewish family in Lebanon.
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