The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Major Harold C. Pierce (MCSN: 0-766), United States Marine Corps, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the Second Battalion, 11th Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps, operating in the Northern Area of the Republic of Nicaragua, from 31 January 1928 to 5 April 1929. Major Pierce displayed great zeal, initiative and sound judgment in his active combat operations against bandits in Western Segovia, during which he personally took the field many times, materially assisting in the suppression of banditry in Nuevo Segovia.