The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Staff Sergeant Murray Juvelier, United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a member of the 873rd Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, in action on 24 April 1945. Sergeant Juvelier was Radar Operator of a B-29 flying from a base in the Mariana Islands on a precision bombing mission against the Hitachi aircraft company in Tachikawa, Japan. In the face of heavy fighter opposition, his formation approached the briefed target. They bombed visually from 11,500 feet with devastating accuracy. More than fifty percent of the bombs hit within one thousand feet of the briefed aiming point, resulting in severe damage and destruction to the plant. The excellent work of Sergeant Juvelier aided materially in the destruction of eighty percent of the plant. The initiative, combat proficiency and courageous actions of this veteran of repeated assaults against the Japanese homeland reflect great credit on himself and the Army Air Forces.