The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Lieutenant Carl Dillon, United States Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Commander of a Bomber in the Solomon Islands-Bismarck Archipelago area from 20 October 1943 to 1 April 1944. Lieutenant Dillon made powerful, accurate bombing and strafing raids. He attacked four Japanese barges at Green Island, destroying one and damaging the others, and later scored three bomb hits on a cargo vessel.