(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Fred Leslie Koch (NSN: 0-453370), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of a Fighter Plane in Fighting Squadron EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR (VF-874), attached to U.S.S. BON HOMME RICHARD (CV-31), in action against enemy forces in Korea on 13 July 1951.