The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain Edward Shamis (MCSN: 0-29569), United States Marine Corps, for heroism and extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of a Plane in Marine Fighter Squadron THREE HUNDRED ELEVEN (VMF-311), during operations against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 22 July 1952. While participating in a bombing attack against a heavily defended enemy supply center, Captain Shamis was severely and painfully wounded by a shattering burst of hostile anti-aircraft fire. Despite the severity of his wounds, the extensive damage to his aircraft and increasing defensive fire, he resolutely pressed home the attack to score direct hits on the target. Upon recovering from the diving assault, he improvised a tourniquet from a rubber oxygen tube and successfully stopped the flow of blood from his shattered left arm. Although losing consciousness intermittently and in an advanced state of shock, he resolutely piloted his faltering plane to a friendly air base where he executed a successful crash-landing with only one landing gear and an unexpended bomb hanging from the right wing. By his outstanding courage, professional skill and selfless devotion to duty, Captain Shamis contributed materially to the success of a mission that demolished a major enemy supply installation, thereby upholding the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.