AWARDED DFC: 1
CONFLICT/SPACE FLIGHT/EVENT:  Vietnam
MODEL:  B-52

Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain Robert G. Certain for heroism while participating in aerial flight as a B-52 Navigator near Hanoi, North Vietnam on 18 December 1972. On that date, while engaged in one of the largest conventional bombing raids ever amassed in the recent history of aerial warfare, Captain Certain's aircraft received significant battle damage as the result of extremely heavy surface-to-air missile and antiaircraft artillery fire. Captain Certain and his crew were in quest of massed supplies, communications equipment and transportation lines in order to eliminate the aggressor's capacity to initiate an offensive. The outstanding heroism and selfless devotion to duty displayed by Captain Certain reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.