This is my Uncle Robert Kirsch. He was the youngest Maj in the Air corps and was the winner of the DFC with 4 oak clusters.  He is also one of the founders of the Niagara falls airforce base In Niagara Falls Ny

Maj Robert Kirsch

Grosseto, Italy, 1945: pre-mission with two 500-pounders bombs for a P-47D Thunderbolt of 65th Fighter Squadron "Fighting Cocks". The 65th FS was one of the three Fighter Squadrons of 57th Fighter Group. The other were 64th FS  "Black Scorpions" and 66th FS  "Terminators". Victor Sierra.

"Fighting Cocks"  at Grosseto

Four Japanese transports, hit by both U.S. surface vessels and aircraft, beached and burning at Tassafaronga, west of positions on Guadalcanal, on November 16, 1942. They were part of the huge force of auxiliary and combat vessels the enemy attempted to bring down from the north on November 13th and 14th. Only these four reached Guadalcanal. They were completely destroyed by aircraft, artillery and surface vessel guns. (AP Photo)  