The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain Robert J. Barbour (MCSN: 0-21057), United States Marine Corps, for heroism while participating in aerial flight as the pilot of a fighter aircraft on 3 March 1952. Captain Barbour, as a member of a four plane flight, took off on a pre-briefed strike to work with an airborne controller, who directed the flight to the target area, which was the village of Kosong. Upon arrival at the designated area, he participated in a series of well coordinated bombing attacks, and despite intense fire from automatic weapons and sharply rising terrain immediately beyond the target, pressed his attack to ground level. With exceptional accuracy he placed his bombs exactly in an enemy Command Post housed in the village, destroyed it and the surrounding buildings, and inflicted fifty enemy casualties. The flight then proceeded to a secondary target, where Captain Barbour, in another series of attacks, contributed to the destruction of several bunkers and the infliction of twenty-five more enemy casualties. Captain Barbour’s superb airmanship and fearless devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.