The Secretary of the Treasury, acting for the President, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Commander Frank Ashton Leamy, United States Coast Guard, for outstanding performance, on 21 May 1937, in flying an airplane of the Coast Guard a distance of approximately sixty miles from the Salem Air Station, to contact the trawler WHITE CAP, in the open sea, and removing from that trawler an officer whose left arm had been severed. The patient was then safely transported to Salem, Massachusetts, for emergency treatment and further hospitalization. The flight was made under adverse conditions and rough seas which made landing and take-off hazardous. The Department takes great pleasure in commending him for the distinguished service rendered which saved a life.