Thanks to wartime records we know that Lt. Lauxman was assigned as a Bombardier to the 93rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. We were able to obtain a copy of his obituary which is included with the medal. It reads:

Fritz U. Lauxman, 76, of Roselle died Jan. 9 in Bergen Pines County hospital,Paramus. Born  in Linden, Mr. Lauxman lived in Roselle since 1947. He was an accountant for Exxon Corp., Elizabeth. for 24 years and retired in 1975. Mr. Lauxman was a 1948 graduate of Rutgers University, where he received a degree in accounting. He was a first lieutenant in the Army during World Wu II, serving in the European Theater as a bombardier. Mr. Lauxman was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity at Rutgers. Surviving are two daughters, Lynne Graber and Leigh Daugherty: two sisters, Edelweiss McCay and Adelheid Lauxman, four grandchildren and a great=grandchild.

The medal is in very good condition and included a oak leaf cluster pin for a 2nd award. Also included is a printed copy of Lt. Lauxman's obituary.

93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated 1-March-1942 at Barksdale Field, Louisiana. On 15-May-1942 the Group moved to Ft. Myers, Florida to continue advanced flight training and also to fly anti-submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico; they claimed 3 U-Boats destroyed. Between 2-15-August-1942 the Group moved to Fort Dix, New Jersey to prepare for deployment overseas. The ground echelon departed for the UK on the Queen Elizabeth on 31-August-1942 and the air echelon moved to Grenier Field, New Hampshire and was refitted with B-24Ds. The group was first located at Station 102, Alconbury between 6-Sep-1942 and 6-Dec-1942. The Group flew 396 missions in 8,169 sorties and dropped 19,004 tons of bombs with 100 aircraft MIA.

93rd Bomb Group was one of the three 8th Air Force B-24 groups that were sent TDY to North Africa in support of 12th Air Force on 12-Dec-1942. The 329th Bomb Squadron remained behind and took up residence at Hardwick. The 328BS, 330BS and 409BS flew to the initial station at Tafarouri, Algeria but the field there was not suited for the heavy bombers and they only conducted two missions from that field. They were then moved Gambut Main, Libya, a field assigned to 9th Air Force. They remained there until 22-February 1943 at which time they returned to Hardwick until 26-Jun-1943.

In late June 1943 the Group was once again sent TDY to 9th AF at Bengazi, Libya for Operation TIDAL WAVE. On 1 August 1943 they participated in the famous mission against the oil targets at Ploesti, Romania. The Squadrons then returned to Hardwick on 27-Aug-1943 and the Group flew missions from that station until the unit Group sent back to the United States on 12-Jun-45.

CLAIMS TO FAME:
Oldest B-24 Bomb Group in 8th Air Force
Flew most missions of any Group in 8th Air Force
First Bomb Squadron (329th) to penetrate German airspace 2-Jan-43
Most traveled Bomb Group in 8th Air Force
First heavy bomber to fly 25 missions: B-24 41-23728 'Hot Stuff' 330BS
First B-24 to complete 50 missions 'Boomerang'
Only wartime unit in the USAF that has not been inactivated since its original formation.

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US Air Force Combat Units of World War II Description

    Constituted as 93d Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 28 Jan 1942. Activated on 1 Mar 1942. Prepared for combat with B-24’s. Engaged in antisubmarine operations over the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, May-Jul 1942. Moved to England, Aug-Sep 1942, and assigned to Eighth AF. Entered combat on 9 Oct 1942 by attacking steel and engineering works at Lille. Until Dec 1942, operated primarily against submarine pens in the Bay of Biscay. A large detachment was sent to North Africa in Dec 1942, the group receiving a DUC for operations in that theater, Dec 1942-Feb 1943, when, with inadequate supplies and under the most difficult desert conditions, the detachment struck heavy blows at enemy shipping and communications. The detachment returned to England, Feb-Mar 1943, and until the end of Jun the group bombed engine repair works, harbors, power plants, and other targets in France, the Low Countries, and Germany. A detachment returned to the Mediterranean theater, Jun-Jul 1943, to support the invasion of Sicily and to participate in the famous low-level attack on enemy oil installations at Ploesti on 1 Aug. Having followed another element of the formation along the wrong course to Ploesti, the 93d hit targets that had been assigned to other groups, but it carried out its bombing of the vital oil installations despite heavy losses inflicted by attacks from the fully-alerted enemy and was awarded a DUC for the operation. Lt Col Addison E Baker, group commander, and Maj John L Jerstad, a former member of the group who had volunteered for this mission, were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for action in the Ploesti raid: refusing to make a forced landing in their damaged B-24, these men, as pilot and co-pilot of the lead plane, led the group to bomb the oil facilities before their plane crashed in the target area. After the detachment returned to England in Aug 1943, the group flew only two missions before the detachment was sent back to the Mediterranean to support Fifth Army at Salerno during the invasion of Italy in Sep 1943. The detachment rejoined the group in Oct 1943, and until Apr 1945 the 93d concentrated on bombardment of strategic targets such as marshalling yards, aircraft factories, oil refineries, chemical plants, and cities in Germany. In addition it bombed gun emplacements, choke points, and bridges near Cherbourg during the Normandy invasion in Jun 1944; attacked troop contingents in northern France during the St Lo breakthrough in Jul 1944; transported food, gasoline, water, and other supplies to the Allies advancing across France, Aug-Sep 1944 ; dropped supplies to airborne troops in Holland on 18 Sep 1944; struck enemy transportation and other targets during the Battle of the Bulge, Dec 1944-Jan 1945; and flew two missions on 24 Mar 1945 during the airborne assault across the Rhine, dropping supplies to troops near Wesel and bombing a night-fighter base at Stormede. Ceased operations in Apr 1945. Returned to the US, May-Jun 1945.