The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Staff Sergeant Winton Hudson Nelson (ASN: 14095478), United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while serving as Ball Turret Gunner of a B-17 airplane of the 423d Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group (Heavy), EIGHTH Air Force, on a number of combat bombardment missions over Germany and German occupied countries from 25 May 1944 to 8 August 1944.