The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) to Lieutenant William Crawford Moseley (NSN: 0-112921), United States Naval Reserve, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as pilot of a carrier-based fighter plane in action against enemy forces over Guam in June 1944. Lieutenant Moseley encountered a numerically superior force of Japanese fighters. Launching a vigorous attack, he succeeded in blasting an enemy fighter from the sky. On 19 June 1944, despite a seriously damaged plane, her personally shot down two hostile craft and probably a third. During a long-range strike against the Japanese fleet he flew in boldly to press home an accurate, damaging attack on the hostile convoy.