The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Claude Favrot Reynaud, United States Navy (Reserve Force), for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Officer of the Deck of the U.S.S. LYDONIA on the occasion of an encounter with a submarine during World War I, when by his prompt and correct action the LYDONIA was enabled to attack with depth bombs and, in conjunction with H.M.S. BASILISK, to destroy the submarine.