[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 106 (Wednesday, July 9, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S4355]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS NATIONAL MEMORIAL ACT

  The bill (H.R. 330) to designate a Distinguished Flying Cross 
National Memorial at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, 
California, was ordered to a third reading and was read the third time.

                                H.R. 330

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Distinguished Flying Cross 
     National Memorial Act''.

     SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS NATIONAL 
                   MEMORIAL IN RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) The most reliable statistics regarding the number of 
     members of the Armed Forces who have been awarded the 
     Distinguished Flying Cross indicate that 126,318 members of 
     the Armed Forces received the medal during World War II, 
     approximately 21,000 members received the medal during the 
     Korean conflict, and 21,647 members received the medal during 
     the Vietnam War. Since the end of the Vietnam War, more than 
     203 Armed Forces members have received the medal in times of 
     conflict.
       (2) The National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, 
     Missouri, burned down in 1973, and thus many more recipients 
     of the Distinguished Flying Cross may be undocumented. 
     Currently, the Department of Defense continues to locate and 
     identify members of the Armed Forces who have received the 
     medal and are undocumented.
       (3) The United States currently lacks a national memorial 
     dedicated to the bravery and sacrifice of those members of 
     the Armed Forces who have distinguished themselves by heroic 
     deeds performed in aerial flight.
       (4) An appropriate memorial to current and former members 
     of the Armed Forces is under construction at March Field Air 
     Museum in Riverside, California.
       (5) This memorial will honor all those members of the Armed 
     Forces who have distinguished themselves in aerial flight, 
     whether documentation of such members who earned the 
     Distinguished Flying Cross exists or not.
       (b) Designation.--The memorial to members of the Armed 
     Forces who have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, 
     located at March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California, 
     is hereby designated as the Distinguished Flying Cross 
     National Memorial.
       (c) Effect of Designation.--The national memorial 
     designated by this section is not a unit of the National Park 
     System, and the designation of the national memorial shall 
     not be construed to require or permit Federal funds to be 
     expended for any purpose related to the national memorial.

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