Volume 46
Public Law 71–421
Waiving the limiting period of two years in Executive Order Numbered 4576 to enable the Board of Awards of the Navy Department to consider recommendation of the award of the distinguished-flying cross to members of the Alaskan Aerial Survey Expedition.
Approved June 9, 1930
Statutory text
An Act
Waiving the limiting period of two years in Executive Order Numbered 4576 to enable the Board of Awards of the Navy Department to consider recommendation of the award of the distinguished-flying cross to members of the Alaskan Aerial Survey Expedition.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That that provision of Executive Order Numbered 4576 of January 28, 1927, prescribing conditions for the award of the distinguished-flying cross authorized by the Act of July 2, 1926, which establishes a limiting period of two years from the date of the act or achievement meriting the award for the initiation of a recommendation for such award, may be waived in the consideration of the existing recommendation of the following personnel of the Alaskan Aerial Survey Expedition of
Members’ names.
the Navy: Lieutenant Wallace M. Dillon; Lieutenant Richard F. Whitehead ; Lieutenant Eugene F. Burkett ; Radio Electrician Claude G. Alexander; Chief Aviation Pilot Thomas G. Reid; Patrick A. McDonough, chief photographer; and William J. Murtha, photographer, first class.
Approved, June 9, 1930.