(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Commander Marion H. Eppes, United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Airship Commander and Pilot of a Naval Airship attached to the Naval Airship Training and Experimental Command, U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, during a Board of Inspection and Survey endurance trial flight of over 200 hours from 17 to 25 May 1954.