(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant, Junior Grade Virgil C. Conaway (NSN: 0-290527), United States Naval Reserve, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of a bombing plane of Bombing Squadron SEVEN (VB-7), embarked in the U.S.S. HANCOCK, during the Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944.