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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Ensign

    Regiment:

    Air Group 30

    Division:

    U.S.S. Belleau Wood (CVL-24)

    Action Date:

    March 1, 1945

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 345 (December 1945)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Ensign Charles D. Relyea, Jr. (NSN: 0-368261), United States Naval Reserve, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of a Torpedo Bomber in Air Group THIRTY, embarked in U.S.S. BELLEAU WOOD (CVL-24), over Nansei Shoto, 1 March 1945.