(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant, Junior Grade Richard A. Kinsella (NSN: 0-290497), 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 U.S.S. HANCOCK, in the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944.