The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Aviation Radioman Third Class Joseph Vernon Alsobrook, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while serving with a squadron based aboard an escort carrier engaged in operations against the enemy at Okinawa Shima, from 25 March 1945 to 29 April 1945. Aviation Radioman Third Class Alsobrook Completed twenty strikes or flights during which he has attacked the enemy or has met enemy opposition or has been actually subjected to enemy attack or in an active combat area where enemy aircraft patrols usually occurred. His conduct throughout has distinguished him among those performing duties of the same character.