The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Ensign Robert Allen Murray Dibb, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in operations against the enemy while serving as Pilot of a carrier-based Navy Fighter Plane in Fighting Squadron THREE (VF-3), attached to the U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-5), in action against enemy Japanese forces in the Battle of Midway, on 4 June 1942. Flying as one of a six-plane fighter escort for our torpedo planes in an attack against three Japanese aircraft carriers, Ensign Dibb, along with others, was vigorously attacked by a large number of ZERO fighters. With cool courage and grim determination he held his formation position on the Division Leader, not only protecting him but also shooting down one enemy fighter, assisting in the destruction of three others and damaging a fifty. Launched from the U.S.S. YORKTOWN that same afternoon to defend her against aerial torpedo assaults, he found the enemy’s attack close-in and fully developed. Considering only the grave peril facing the carrier, he deliberately defied a bursting hail of anti-aircraft fire from our own ships in a desperate effort to intercept the enemy. His unyielding devotion to duty, maintained at great personal risk against tremendous odds, was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.