The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Private Frank E. Deyhle (MCSN: 201485), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism on 1 April 1936, at the Marine Barracks, Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada, when a man temporarily crazed, viciously attacked, without provocation or warning, a fellow comrade with a bolo and struck him down. Private Deyhle sprang at the assailant, warded off the second slash upon his comrade with his hand, and in so doing sustained lacerations which resulted in the loss of two fingers and the major portion of his left hand. In spite of his injuries he continued to struggle with the maniac until he was subdued and disarmed, thereby preventing fatal injury to other comrades.