(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Ensign Leonard E. Swanson (NSN: 0-176572), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Co-Pilot of a Liberator Bomber in Bombing Squadron ONE HUNDRED FOUR (VB-104), over the Gilbert and Caroline Islands, from 28 October 1942 to 15 November 1942.