With the Distinguished Flying Cross pinned to his tunic, 1st Lt. John C. Rogers, Notus, Idaho, and son of O. T. Rogers, 1408 1/2 Leeland Ave., Houston, Texas, is shown here being congratulated by Col. Charles W. Lawrence, Commanding Officer of an AAF Wing, who made the presentation to the P-38 Lightning pilot at this American base in Italy. Rogers, in receiving the highest Airman's medal, was cited for "extraordinary achievement" as a pilot of a P-38 Lightning in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operation. "Buck," as he is called by flying buddies, has shot down one enemy plane in aerial combat.