(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant [then Lieutenant, Junior Grade] John James Kenny, Jr., United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a Pilot in Fighting Squadron FOURTEEN (VF-14), embarked in U.S.S. WASP (CV-18), over the northern Philippine Islands on 5 November 1944. Lieutenant Kenny shot down three enemy airplanes in aerial combat.