(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant, Junior Grade Channing Gardner (NSN: 0-521458), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while serving with Fighter Squadron SIX HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE (VF-653), embarked in U.S.S. VALLEY FORGE (CV-45), in action against enemy aggressor forces in Korea on 18 December 1951.