The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) to Lieutenant Mark P. Mowry (NSN: 0-98618), United States Naval Reserve, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight on 29 January 1944. Lieutenant Mowry led his division of fighter planes in repeated strafing raids on Ebeye Island and upon shipping in a nearby lagoon. He pressed home his successive attacks with determination, severely damaging two aircraft at a seaplane base, silencing a group of light anti-aircraft guns near the ramps and seriously damaging two small cargo vessels lying off the island.