The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Ensign Edwin S. Pou, United States Navy (Reserve Force), for distinguished and heroic service as a Seaplane Pilot on September 17 and 26 October 1918, in bombing operations against enemy submarines, on one of which occasions the submarine attacked was officially reported as haying been destroyed. Later Ensign Pou lost his life in a seaplane accident.