The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to First Lieutenant John Somerville Eaton Young (MCSN: 0-4088), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight while attached to the Aircraft Squadrons, Second Brigade, United States Marine Corps, operating in the Republic of Nicaragua. On the morning of 19 June 1930, First Lieutenant Young, while pilot in a two-plane patrol, encountered and developed a hostile group of bandits, variously estimated at from two hundred to six hundred, under Sandino, on Saraguasa Mountain. With courage, coolness and skill he attacked with bombs and machine gun fire, and though his airplane was struck by hostile gun fire, he nevertheless, at great personal risk, over perilous jungle and under constant enemy rifle machine gun fire, continued the attack until his ammunition was exhausted. Again on the afternoon of the same day he returned in a six-plane patrol to the same place, where at low altitude, he continued the assault under constant hostile fire for an hour and twenty minutes. As a result of these contacts the bandits suffered many casualties, were forced to retire and organized banditry was dealt a severe and telling blow.