The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Captain Zachariah Harvey Madison, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. SUSQUEHANNA and the U.S.S. DES MOINES, engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of transporting and escorting, troops and supplies to ports through waters infested with enemy submarines and mines, during World War I.