(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Ensign William Ernest Patton (NSN: 0-508047), 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), during operations against enemy forces in the Korean area on 10 March 1951.