The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Robert A. Lovett, United States Navy (Reserve Force), for distinguished service in the line of his profession in connection with the organization of the Northern Bombing Group, and for active and daring raids over the enemy line in Belgium against submarine bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge, and for raids made in co-operation with the Allied Armies during the retirement of the enemy on the Belgian front during October and November, 1918.