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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Ensign

    Batallion:

    Bombing Squadron

    Division:

    U.S.S. Enterprise

    Action Date:

    October 18, 1944

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 341 (August 1945)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Ensign Leslie S. Hornbeak (NSN: 0-299349), 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 embarked in U.S.S. ENTERPRISE, in the Philippine Islands, on 18 October 1944.