(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant, Junior Grade Leo Thomas Freitas (NSN: 0-508154), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while serving with Fighter Squadron TWENTY-THREE (VF-23), embarked in U.S.S. ESSEX (CV-9), in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 11 August 1952.