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 First Lieutenant William E. Androsko (MCSN: 0-44866), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight against the enemy while serving as a Pilot attached to Marine Fighting Squadron TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN (VMF-214), aboard the U.S.S. SICILY (CVE-118), on 24 September 1950. As a member of a fighter division operating in extremely close air support of our attacking troops in the Han River area just northwest of Seoul, First Lieutenant Androsko, with a high degree of courage and outstanding skill, exposed himself repeatedly to intense enemy anti-aircraft and small arms fire in order to seek out and destroy enemy troops in heavily-fortified positions. Lieutenant Androsko made continuous strafing and rocket attacks on these positions at very low altitude, destroying many enemy troops and forcing a retreat into semi-concealed caves located at the end of a box canyon. To continue his attack with accuracy on these new positions required that he fly at an extremely low altitude between the walls of the box canyon and recover by zooming over a high cliff at the canyon’s end. He succeeded in scoring a direct hit upon several of these caves with his napalm causing the destruction of a large force of the enemy. He continued to make strafing attacks in the face of great hazard of terrain and the enemy fire, giving the enemy no chance to recover from the previous staggering attacks. First Lieutenant Androsko’s heroic actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.