The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Davis S. Ingalls, United States Navy (Reserve Force), for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Pilot of an Aeroplane when on 15 September 1918, he led a flight of five machines on a low bombing raid on an enemy aerodrome. On the homeward journey he shot down a two-seater enemy aeroplane in flames. He further participated in two other low bombing raids and upon still another occasion shot down an enemy kite-balloon in flames near Ostend.