The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Second Lieutenant Alva Anderson (MCSN: 0-33776), 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 1 June 1945 to 10 June 1945. Second Lieutenant Anderson completed twenty missions which were flown in an active combat area where enemy anti-aircraft opposition was expected, and on one or more of these missions such enemy opposition was encountered.