(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Aviation Machinist’s Mate Second Class Melvin E. Harman (NSN: 3217923), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a member of the aircrew of a U.S. Navy Patrol Bombing Aircraft in Patrol Bombing Squadron SIXTY-THREE (VPB-63) engaged in anti-submarine operations in the Bay of Biscay and the Western Approaches to the United Kingdom during the period 18 December 1944 to 3 February 1945.