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TURDAY, MARCH 6, 1943
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Addison Baker Decorated For Heroic Service
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  FOR HIS PART in leading his squadron of Liberator bombers on one of the biggest raids of the war on Lille, France, last October, and for subsequent raids over North Africa, Maj. Addison Baker, veteran Akron pilot, has been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, it was learned today. 
  Major Baker's wife, a former Rankin school teacher received word of the presentation which

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was made by Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brererton at an army base in North Africa.
  Last October, Associated Press dispatches revealed that Major Baker was one of nine Ohioans to participate in the famed Lille raid in which they were atacked by some 40 or 50 German fighters. 
  The major is now on furlough in England, he wrote his wife. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Baker of Portage Lakes, and formerly was employed as a sales representative at the Akron Air Services, Inc. 
  Receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross with Baker was Maj. Kenneth Cool of Twinsburg who flew one of the Liberators in the Lille raid. Both men have been flying over North Africa for some months. 

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