The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Paul Sorenson, United States Naval Reserve, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as pilot of a fighter plane in action against a German submarine in the Atlantic during March 1944. Lieutenant Sorenson pressed home two vigorous strafing runs in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire, silenced the enemy deck guns, demolished the periscope and started fires and explosions of ready ammunition. Subsequent appearance of an oil slick enabled our forces to locate and destroy the submarine the next day.