United States Statutes at Large/Volume 45/70th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 480
[H.R. 13331.]
[Public, No.341.]
Chap. 480.—An Act To authorize the President to present the distinguished flying cross to Colonel Francesco de Pinedo, Dieudonne Costes, Joseph LeBrix-Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, James C. FitzMaurice, and Hermann Koehl,
Distinguished flying crosses.
To be presented to Colonel Francesco de Pinedo.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the President be, and is hereby, authorized to present the distinguished flying cross to Colonel Francesco de Pinedo in recognition of his extraordinary achievement in making an aerial journey of twenty-five thousand miles by flying boat in the course of which he arrived in the United States by air from Rome.
Dieudonne Costes and Joseph LeBrix.That the President be, and is hereby, authorized to present the distinguished flying cross to Dieudonne Costes and Joseph LeBrix in recognition of their extraordinary achievement in an aerial journey of thirty-five thousand miles in the course of which they arrived in the United States by air after making the first nonstop flight across the South Atlantic.
Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, James C. FitzMaurice, and Hermann Koehl.That the President be and he is hereby authorized to present the distinguished flying cross to Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, James C . FitzMaurice, and Hermann Koehl, in recognition of their extraordinary achievement in making the first nonstop westward trans-Atlantic flight by airplane from Europe to North America.
Approved, May 2, 1928.