The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) to Lieutenant Henry Sterling McWhorter, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of an unarmed jet photographic aircraft in Light Photographic Squadron SIXTY-THREE, Detachment GOLF, during a coordinated strike mission against a military target in North Vietnam on 23 August 1965. Assisting the jet attack element in locating the target area, Lieutenant McWhorter, in the face of intense enemy anti-aircraft fire, orbited over the target in his unarmed aircraft while simultaneously transmitting a radio signal to the attacking aircraft, thereby allowing them to home on the target.