The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Captain Richard George Voge, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States as Operations and Combat Intelligence Officer, Submarines Pacific, from September 1942 to June 1945. Captain Voge placed into operation the highly effective method by which our submarines have sought out and destroyed the enemy. In his intelligent analysis of Japanese ship movements and strategy, he was able to coordinate the operations of all submarines in the Pacific fleet with other forces, with the result that millions of tons of enemy merchant and combat shipping were sunk or damaged. He also contributed immeasurably to the inauguration and success of air-sea rescue operations in support of air strikes against the Japanese home islands.