(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Ensign Wesley H. Richards, United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a Torpedo Bomber Pilot in Composite Squadron EIGHTY-FOUR (VC-84), embarked in U.S.S. MAKIN ISLAND (CVE-93), over Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, from 24 March 1945 to 29 April 1945.