The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain Arthur W. Bauer (MCSN: 0-36576), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight against the enemy in Korea on 30 November 1951. Captain Bauer, a member of an eight plane flight diverted from a close air support mission and reassigned to attack tanks assaulting allied supply warehouses near Oeryomison-ni, skillfully detected as he dived in the number five position three enemy tanks which had eluded the main aerial onslaught. Aggressively attacking the tanks, Captain Bauer rendered all three tanks useless by virtue of direct hits on low level dive-bombing runs. Subsequent assaults with rockets and machine guns on accompanying troops and fire positions were expertly delivered by Captain Bauer despite intense anti-aircraft fire. As a result of his courageous and proficient actions, four direct rocket hits were scored on the tanks, numerous casualties were inflicted and much of the automatic weapons fire from the surrounding positions was silenced. Captain Bauer’s keen alertness and unswerving devotion to duty in the face of tremendous odds throughout were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.