(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Commander Sam Leonard Silber, United States Navy, was awarded a Second Gold Star in lieu of a Third Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Commander of a Fighting Squadron during World War II.

(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Commander Sam L. Silber, United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Commanding Officer of a Fighter Squadron at Truk on 16 – 17 February 1944 and at Guam and Tinian on 22 February 1944.

The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Commander Sam L. Silber, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Commander of a Fighting Squadron during World War II. Lieutenant Commander Silber led his planes in sorties over Truk during which they shot down five enemy planes. He led a fighter reconnaissance attack against Guam, during which a new air field was located and attacked, and two enemy planes were destroyed in the air and eight on the ground. While his squadron was escorting bombing strikes at Tinian, four enemy planes were shot down and an estimated 30 were destroyed on the ground.