1952: Maj Louis Carrington, Maj Frederick Shook, and Capt Wallace Yancey flew a 91 SRW RB-45C on the first nonstop transpacific flight from Elmendorf AFB to Yokota AB, a distance of 3,460 nautical miles in 9 hours, 50 minutes, with two refuelings from KB-29s to earn the 1952 award.
(RB-45C (48-039) is refueled by KB-29P (44-83927; originally B-29B-45-BA), both of the 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing)