The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Quartermaster First Class Walter L. Seiler, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty while serving in the French Unit of the U.S. Naval Aviation Service. Quartermaster First Class Seiler took part in an engagement with an enemy submarine on 13 August 1918, off Dunkirk and displayed courage and daring in answering enemy shell fire with a machine gun.