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 Captain (Air Corps) Alfred Henry Johnson, U.S. Army Air Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flights. Despite a history of failures and fatalities in connection with developments in high level operations, Captain Johnson, with utter disregard of his personal safety, served as Pilot in the first successful test flights ever to be performed in a pressure cabin airplane. By his courage and skill as a pilot, combined with a superior knowledge of supercharged power plant operation, Captain Johnson aided materially in bringing to the United States Army Air corps the distinction of first demonstrating practical high level airplane operation.