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[[preprinted]]
Ambassade de France 
aux Etats-Unis
L'Attaché de l'Air

1759 - R STREET, N.W.
TELEPHONE: DECATUR 8300
WASHINGTON 9.D.C.

ADRESSE TELEGRAPHIQUE: FRENCHAIR WASHINGTON
[[/preprinted]]

July 26th, 1950

Brigadier General Jacques-Louis MURTIN, Air Attache to the French Embassy, would consider it an honor to bestow upon you the Croix de Guerre at a presentation ceremony which will take place in Washington, on August 8th at 5:30 p.m., at the French Chancery, 2535 Belmont Road N.W.

General Twining and thirty former members of the 15th Air Force will attend. 

The closest members (adult) of your family are cordially invited to witness the ceremony.

Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, jr.
Air War College,
Maxwell AFB, Alabama

R.S.V.P.

^[[Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. considers it an honor to receive the Croix de Guerre at a presentation ceremony which will take place in Washington, on August 8th at 5:30 p.m., at the French Chancery, 2535 Belmont Road. N.W.

Mrs. Davis accepts the ^[[kind]] invitation to witness the ceremony]]

^[[Ans - Aug 4]]