(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant, Junior Grade Theodore J. Pilip, United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of an Observation Plane in Observation Squadron TWO (VO-2), aboard the U.S.S. IDAHO (BB-42), over Okinawa, from 18 April 1945 to 18 June 1945.