The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Major Douglas B. Roben (MCSN: 0-3220), United States Marine Corps, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as airplane Pilot and Squadron Commander of Airplane Squadron No. 3, 1st Marine Aviation Force, attached to the Northern Bomb Group (USN), in which capacity he led the Squadron on many active bombing raids against the enemy during World War I.