The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant (MC) William R. Redden, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession while serving at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, in developing a convalescent influenza-pneumonia serum, which has proven of very great value in reducing mortality from 38 to 4 per cent, and for general service at the hospital, during the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 – 1919.