Certificate (1Fighter Command) and two letters commending and thanking Elmer Cousins for volunteering with the Aircraft Warning Service, "to take part in the gradual transition from the defensive position..to the offensive..." "A small scale sneak raid" is still possible...maintain silence...to safeguard military information." (The War Dept. had announced the discontinuance of the Ground Observer Corps and the Aircraft Warning Corps.)
“WWII War Dept. recognition of Elmer Cousins,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed December 24, 2024, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/4056.Item 4422