The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Major David C. Andre (MCSN: 0-7512), United States Marine Corps, for heroism and extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight in operations against the enemy in the Amami O’Shima sector of the Nansei Shoto Islands, on 9 April 1945. As leader of a flight of twelve carrier-based fighter aircraft he displayed marked skill in locating and pressing home an attack on the enemy’s camouflaged and heavily defended seaplanes base, which set eight planes afire and damaged servicing installations in the vicinity. At another field he spotted four carefully concealed enemy aircraft and destroyed them. His skill and courage were at all times in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.