WW2 USAAF Distinguished Flying Cross Medal and Document Grouping of 1st Lieutenant Leon C Druckenmiller B-17 Bomber Pilot of 554th Bombardment Squadron, 384th Bombardment Group, fine grouping consisting of Distinguished Flying Cross housed in the original case of issue, American Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters to the ribbon, also housed in the original case of issue. Both medals un-named as issued. Complete with set of Pilots wings with pin back fittings to the reverse. Pair of sterling silver rank bars. Also accompanied by a selection of original documents relating to the service of 1st Lieutenant Druckenmiller including the recommendation for his Distinguished Flying Cross with citation ‘For extraordinary achievement while serving as a pilot of a B-17 airplane on a number of combat bombardment missions over Germany and German occupied countries’. Another document on 1st May 1944 details a special commendation for the bomb group who attacked a target in Germany, ‘With its escort of P-51’s outnumbered and drawn off in combat, this formation was left, for more than an hour, without fighter protection. Before and during this period, in addition to intense fire from ground defenses, the crews of the 41st B Combat Wing were exposed to repeated savage assaults from more than fifty ME 109’s and FW 190’s, at one time remaining under unremitting attack for approximately forty minutes’. Grouping remains in very good overall condition. 1st Lieutenant Leon C Druckenmiller was from Reading, Pennsylvania. He entered active duty in 1943, serving in the European theatre of operations from March 1944. After the war he appeared to serve in the reserves.