(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Commander Eugene W. Fitzsimmons, United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight on 23 November 1966, as a Pilot in a Fighter Squadron. Without benefit of any pre-flight briefing, he volunteered to escort a photographic reconnaissance aircraft on a mission to cover two targets in the Haiphong complex in North Vietnam. Despite heavy enemy artillery fire and surface-to-air missiles, he successfully escorted the photo plane to the safety of the Gulf of Tonkin.

(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Commander Eugene W. Fitzsimmons, United States Navy, was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a Section Leader in a flight of six F-4B aircraft assigned as flak suppressors to support a major, coordinated air-wing strike against the vital Ninh Binh railyards in North Vietnam, on 11 November 1966.