The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant (MC) Francis E. Locy, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct and devotion to duty as Battalion Surgeon, First Battalion, Sixth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces In the early part of June 1918, during the attacks of his battalion against enemy machine gun nests in the Bois de Belleau, Lieutenant Locy operated a dressing station in a culvert under the highway so located as to receive almost constant fire from the enemy batteries.