The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Corporal Charles E. Cayer (MCSN: 310318), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a Radioman-Gunner in Marine Scout-Bombing Squadron TWO HUNDRED FORTY-ONE (VMSB-241), during the Battle of Midway, 4 and 5 June 1945. With courageous efficiency and utter disregard for his own personal safety, Corporal Cayer manned a free machine gun in the rear seat of his plane on the morning of 4 June, and again during an attack upon a damaged Japanese battleship on the morning of 5 June. His gallant devotion to duty was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.