The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain Raymond W. Baker (MCSN: 0-28193), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight against the enemy in Korea on 13 August 1951. Captain Baker, as leader of a flight of four aircraft took off on a close air support mission directed by the Joint Operations Center. He was directed to report to a Tactical Air Controller Airborne near the town of Chuktai-ri. The Controller marked the target which consisted of troops on the reverse slope of a ridge, gun positions on the ridge, and bunkers on the forward slope of the ridge. Captain Baker, disregarding intense enemy small arms fire, made two low runs over the area to determine the exact positions of the enemy targets and the exact position of friendly lines. Then he led his flight on a series of expertly calculated napalm, rocket, and strafing attacks, inflicting seventy-five confirmed enemy casualties, destroying three gun positions, three bunkers, and starting three fires in ammunition or fuel oil dumps. Captain Baker’s fearless leadership and courageous devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.