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T. Sgt. Kirk M. Estes, whose wife lives at 1324 Morningside Avenue, has been awarded the fifth oak leaf cluster to the air medal for “meritorious achievement” during bombing attacks on nazi military and industrial installations. Sgt. Estes has a combat career of more than 25 missions to his credit and is a radio operator and gunner of an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, March 27, 1945
