(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Marcus Paul Merner (NSN: 0-485423), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of a fighter plane in Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED NINETY-TWO (VF-192), attached to U.S.S. PRINCETON (CV-37), in action against enemy forces in Korea on 28 January 1951.