"Left To Right: S/Sgt Morris Hall Of Sanger, CA., Presents A Wooden Model Of A Bomber To S/Sgt Oliver R. Germann, Of Moran, Wyo., As S/Sgt. Fred B. Mellums, Springhill, Tenn., S/Sgt. Lonnie L. Ackerman, Fox, Ark., T/Sgt. Buford R. Smith, Insul, Ky., And S/Sgt Joseph A Crowder, Luden, TN., look on. S/Sgt Germann just arrived from a hospital in Africa where he recovered from wounds received in a raid over Italy, to an airbase in England, where he was awarded, in one day, the SS, the DFC(OLC), the PH and the AM(3OLC). England."