The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Walter F. Madden, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight during the occupation of French Morocco, 8 to 11 November 1942. Despite the presence of heavy and continual anti-aircraft fire, Lieutenant Madden flew more than 500 miles in photographic reconnaissance over the central and northern attack groups, rendering reports on many important roads, fields, towns, and bridges and discovering a number of opposing reinforcements moving toward Casablanca.