The War Department has just announced that Staff Sergeant Eugene H. Stein, of New York City, has been awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster for “second recognition” in addition to the Army Air Medal which was bestowed on him only a few days ago, by Major General Ira B. Eaker, Commander of the United States Army Eighth Air Force in England. In the citation accompanying the award, the General lauded Sergeant Stein for his “courage, coolness and skill” in shooting down, in the course of a combat mission, a German Focke-Wulf 190. Sgt. Stein is a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia where he had been active as a member of the New Zionist Youth Organization. Upon his arrival in this country, he joined the Jabotinsky Aviation School in Edgemere, LoI.
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