The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) to Ensign Harold L. Handshuh (NSN: 0-176510), United States Naval Reserve, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while piloting a fighter airplane on an anti-submarine patrol with a torpedo bomber, during World War II. Ensign Handshuh sighted and attacked a U-boat, scoring many hits as he strafed it. Under the protection afforded by his strafing attack, the torpedo bomber was able to deliver an accurate depth-bomb attack which probably destroyed the submarine.