(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant, Junior Grade [then Ensign] Thomas J. Wadsworth, United States Navy, was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of a Fighter Plane in Composite Squadron NINE (VC-9), embarked in U.S.S. NATOMA BAY (CVE-62), over the Nansei Shoto area, from 25 March 1945 to 20 June 1945.


