The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Grant H. Rogers, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Division Leader of a Bombing Squadron in a strike against Japanese shipping in Rabaul Harbor on 11 November 1943. Lieutenant Rogers selected an important target and personally scored a direct hit on a Japanese light cruiser. Despite repeated attacks from enemy fighter planes, he retired from the target area and effected a rendezvous with the remainder of his squadron.