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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Ensign

    Batallion:

    Aircraft Squadron

    Division:

    U.S.S. Lexington (CV-2)

    Action Date:

    February 20, 1942

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 304 (July 1942)

    The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Ensign John H. Lackey, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism while participating in aerial flight, while serving as Pilot of an airplane in an Aircraft Squadron, attached to the U.S.S. LEXINGTON (CV-2), in action against enemy forces in the Pacific War Area when his carrier was attacked by Japanese bombing planes on 20 February 1942. Ensign Lackey made vigorous and determined attacks, in the face of combined enemy machine gun and cannon fire against a formation of enemy heavy bombers, and he, with the assistance of his teammate, caused the destruction of one enemy bomber.