The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Second Lieutenant Conway M. Andersen (MCSN: 0-32730), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight in connection with military operations against the enemy in the Philippine Islands Area from 4 March 1945 to 10 March 1945. Second Lieutenant Andersen completed twenty missions which were flown in an active combat area where enemy anti-aircraft fire or enemy airborne opposition was expected, and on one or more of these missions such enemy opposition was encountered.