Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....STRATTON, LT. L. E. 1945
WWII US AIR FORCE  FIRST TACTICAL AIR FORCE MARAUDER
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LT LE STRATTON MARAUDER PILOT,HAS 35 MISSIONS
 WITH THE ''BOOMERANG BOMBERS'' OF THE FIRST TACTICAL AIR FORCE IN FRANCE
  SERVING WITH THE FIRST TACTICAL AIR FORCE MARAUDER IN FRANCE,SECOND LT. EDWARD E
STRATTON, CORDELE,GA..RECENTLY SAW THE BOOMERANGS FLY THEIR 500TH MISSION IN A
SERIES OF SIX MAJOR CAMPAIGNS WHIC H HAS SEEN THE MARAUDER'S TARGETS MOVE FROM
AFRICA TO GERMANY.

  IN CONTINOUS COMBAT OPERATIONS FOR 23 MONTHS, THE BOOMERINGS HAVE DESTROYED 267
ENEMY PLANES,MORE THAN ANY OTHER MARAUDER GROUP, AND HAVE DROPPED MORE THAN 15,000
TONS OF BOMBSON ENEMY TARGETS. HUNDREDS OF AIR ASSAULTS AGAINEST LINES OF
COMMUNICATIONS IN AFRICA,SICILY,FRANCE AND GERMANY,COMBINED WITH JOINT AIR-GROUND
OPERATIONS AT SALERNO,CASSINO,ANZIO,THE GOTHIC LINE  AND THE SIEGFRIED LINE HAVE
EARNED THE MARAUDER MEN A REPUTATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL PRECISION BOMBING. CITED BY THE
WAR DEPT. AS A DISTINGUISHED UNIT THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN AWARDED THE CROIX DE GUERRE BY
GENERAL DE GAULLE AND FRENCH GOVERNMENT FOR OUTSTANDING COMBAT ACHEIVMENTS.
 OVERSEAS SINCE JULY 1944 LT STRATTON IS A MARAUDER PILOT, CREDITED WITH MORE THAN
25 COMBAT MISSIONS.

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