The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Quarter Master Albert V. Horton, United States Coast Guard, for extraordinary heroism on the occasion of the explosion of the T. A. Gillespie shell-loading plant, Morgan, New Jersey, on 4 and 5 October 1918, in assisting in the removal from the danger zone of valuable carloads of high explosives within close proximity to exploding ammunition dumps.