The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Commander William T. Majors, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight in connection with military operations against the enemy as a Strike Section Leader in an air wing strike against the Dong Phuong Bridge on 27 June 1965. Lieutenant Commander Majors, despite intense enemy anti-aircraft fire, made a highly successful BULLPUP attack against the northern span of the bridge, scoring a direct hit and helping to destroy the span. In the face of withering light and medium anti-aircraft fire, he made a second attack on the bridge, directed a second BULLPUP missile against the southern span of the structure and scored another direct hit.