The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Private First Class Irving W. Aron (MCSN: 219757), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while a member of a Marine patrol in contact with a bandit group near Achuapa, Nicaragua, on 31 December 1930. The patrol of which he was a member, while on telephone line repair work, was attacked by a vastly superior force of bandits, and upon the opening of the bandit fire, Private First Class Aron took up a position alongside the trail and returned the fire. After maintaining his position for about an hour he was seriously wounded in the arm. Without regard for his personal safety and disregarding his wound, he took up the fire with his pistol in his left hand and continued to assist in the defense until he was killed. Private First Class Aron’s conduct during this action was of the highest order and beyond the ordinary call of duty.