(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Ensign Edsel C. Varney, United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Pilot of a Fighter Plane in Composite Squadron EIGHTY-FOUR (VC-84), embarked in U.S.S. MAKIN ISLAND (CVE-93), over Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, from 23 March 1945 to 29 April 1945.