Bio: Schwieso, Bruce D. (Distinguished Flying Cross – 1972)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Schwieso

----Source: Tribune/Record/Gleaner (Loyal, Wis.) 17 Feb 1972

U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Bruce D. Schwieso, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Schwieso, Route 2, Loyal (Clark Co., Wis.), has been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross for aerial achievement in Vietnam.

Sergeant Schwieso distinguished himself as a C-123 Provider cargo troop carrier loadmaster when he participated in re-supply missions into a forward airstrip. Although his aircraft came under intensive hostile mortar attack, he skillfully and expeditiously performed his duties, thus minimizing the crew's ground time.

He was presented with the medal at Dyess AFB, Texas, where he now serves with a unit of the Tactical Air Command, which provides combat units for air support of U.S. ground forces.

The sergeant is a 1968 graduate of Loyal High School.