Raymond Chan's four Distinguished Flying Cross awards
Channel: PurpleCast
Date: 2022-01-13

At the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, Major General William Chen (U.S. Army, retired) announced that Raymond Chan had earned not three, but four, Distinguished Flying Cross awards. “As I reviewed all the records of those veterans that registered, I never saw an individual with as many awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross as Ray Chan — he received the Distinguished Flying Cross with three oak leaf clusters, which means four awards.” As Gen. Chen, a career officer, had a father who flew as a pilot in the China-Burma-India theater of war, where Ray Chan was stationed, he knew the significance of the Distinguished Flying Cross with three oak clusters, indicative of four awards.