(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Darwin A. Schmidt (NSN: 0-106194), United States Navy, was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a Pilot and Flight Leader in a Torpedo Plane Division of Composite Squadron EIGHTY-SIX (VC-86), embarked in U.S.S. BISMARCK SEA (CVE-95), over the Volcano Islands area from November 1944 to February 1945.