The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) to Lieutenant Anthony R. Matuski (NSN: 0-98549), United States Naval Reserve, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight during a coordinated attack on an enemy submarine in the Caribbean on 6 August 1943. Lieutenant Matuski bravely flew into intense and continuous fire to drop depth charges, damaging the submarine on his first run so that she was unable to submerge. With his plane damaged and ablaze after the second run, he succeeded in getting a message through to his base before his plane crashed.