The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Stanley E. Ruehlow, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as leader of a flight of eight fighters attached to a United States Aircraft Carrier, dispatched to repel a Japanese raid on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 15 November 1942. In the face of superior numbers of enemy aircraft, Lieutenant Ruehlow led his men to the attack in which six enemy fighters were destroyed and four more were probably shot down. He personally accounted for one Japanese plane shot down and one damaged. As a result of this action the air raid was repelled and Lieutenant Ruehlow and all of his fighters returned safely to their base.