The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Ensign Stephen Potter, United States Navy (Reserve Force), for distinguished and heroic service as an Aviator attached to the British Royal Air Force. Ensign Potter participated in a number of offensive patrols in the North Sea and on 13 March 1918, shot down and destroyed an enemy seaplane. He was himself shot down in flames in the North Sea on 25 April 1918.