(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Ensign William N. Thomas, Jr. (NSN: 0-351375), United States Naval Reserve, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of a Fighter Plane in Air Group THIRTY, embarked in U.S.S. BELLEAU WOOD (CVL-24), over the Bonins, Tokyo areas, from 15 February 1945 to 1 March 1945.