The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Ensign Lewis A. Matthews, Jr. (NSN: 0-157756), United States Naval Reserve, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight acting as wingman while escorting our bombers in a strike against installations and shipping at Truk Atoll. Ensign Matthews countered an attack by numerous enemy fighters and accounted for two of the 10 Japanese planes destroyed by his four-plane division. In another mission the same day he strafed a light cruiser in Truk Harbor, silencing here anti-aircraft fire.