The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant William David Biggers (NSN: 0-104805), United States Naval Reserve, for heroism and extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as pilot of a carrier-based fighter plane. On 12 October 1944 he led his division in a fighter sweep in the vicinity of Formosa against numerically superior enemy fighter opposition. In this action he engaged four enemy fighters, shooting down one and probably destroying a second. His courage and skill in this action were at all times in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.