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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Aviation Machinist’s Mate First Class

    Batallion:

    Patrol Bombing Squadron 121 (VPB-121)

    Action Date:

    March 7 – August 11, 1945

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 354 (September 1946)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Aviation Machinist’s Mate First Class Delmar W. Mott (NSN: 6106238), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Plane Captain and Forward Deck Turret Gunner in a Patrol Bomber in Patrol Bombing Squadron ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE (VPB-121), over Wake and Ponape Islands, Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima and Japan, from 7 March 1945 to 11 August 1945.