The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Lewis D. Crockett, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight during a coordinated attack on an enemy submarine in the Caribbean on 6 August 1943. Lieutenant Crockett launched a demolition bombing attack with his plane and temporarily silenced the submarine’s guns. When an enemy bullet exploded in the starboard wing and fired the fuel line, he courageously continued action and later directed the attacks of other planes and repeatedly used his own plane to divert fire from assisting planes.