The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Aviation Radioman First Class Walter G. Chochalousek, United States Navy, for heroism and extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as gunner of a plane in the Battle of Midway, 4 to 6 June 1942. While participating in three dive-bombing attacks, he shot down one enemy fighter and drove off others with accurate and timely fire from his free machine guns.