The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain Donald M. Bloomer (MCSN: 0-39304), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight during the Korean Conflict from 22 January 1951 to 28 February 1952. Captain Bloomer, while serving as a Pilot attached to the Forward Echelon of Marine Transport Squadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO (VMR-152), completed numerous support missions in heavily loaded aircraft. These flights were carried out under unusually hazardous conditions, including extremely adverse weather with heavy icing and turbulence, inadequate aids to navigation including unreliable homer facilities, hazardous mountain terrain, dangerous runways of the advanced airstrips on many occasions covered with mud or ice and snow and over guerrilla infested territory where aircraft had been fired upon and hit. Many of these flights were made into airstrips in extreme forward areas where no aids to navigation or crash facilities existed. The heavy and unbalanced loads of cargo and the adverse weather encountered in these flights required the utmost skill and flight planning and execution, which Captain Bloomer accomplished with confidence and skill. As a result of these flights desperately needed ammunition and other supplies reached front line units and the critically wounded of the United Nations forces were flown safely to hospitals in Japan. Captain Bloomer’s alertness, efficient actions and devotion to duty was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.