AWARDED DFC: 1
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Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class, Belton K. Jernigan, U.S. Navy, for extraordinary achievement while participating in sustained operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific area from 13 September 1943 to 30 December 1943, during which hostile contact was probable and expected.