The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Ensign Roy J. O’Neal (NSN: 0-315757), United States Naval Reserve, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while piloting a Fighter Plane in a sweep over Iwo Jima during World War II. Ensign O’Neal climbed to attack two large groups of hostile aircraft and, despite the hazards of a low ceiling, personally accounted for three of 33 enemy planes destroyed by his flight. In a fighter-bomber mission over the same area he assisted in destroying 33 Japanese fighters in combat and approximately 40 planes on the ground.