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 Aubrey E. Pollock, United States Army Air Forces, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight 24 March 1945. These individuals were combat crew members of the pathfinder B-29 aircraft for their group in a maximum effort mission from the Mariana Islands against the Mitsubishi aircraft factory in Nagoya, Japan. The long range, low altitude attack was carefully planned with this crew briefed to go over the target three times and release powerful flares to guide the aircraft that followed. With exceptional precision they approached the target and dropped their flares. Circling away over Nagoya at 360 degrees, they returned in the face of intense and accurate searchlight-guided flak. A force of Japanese fighters attacked the lone B-29 as they entered the third run over the area. Undismayed by the attempted interception, they continued with their exacting assignment and withdrew after circling the heavily fortified city for fifty minutes. The accuracy with which these crew members performed their assignment is shown by post strike photographs of the vast area left in blazing wreckage after the assault by the bombardment wing. The leadership and devotion to duty displayed by these veterans of more than twenty-one combat sorties reflect credit on themselves in keeping with the highest traditions of the Army Air Forces.