AWARDED DFC: 1
CONFLICT/SPACE FLIGHT/EVENT:  Vietnam
MODEL:  RF-4C

Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain Eugene L. Barnhart for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as an RF-4C Aircraft Commander, in Southeast Asia, on 12 May 1969. On that date, Captain Barnhart was assigned numerous high priority targets in addition to an extremely difficult, physically demanding, and hazardous mission of visual reconnaissance. Despite bad weather conditions and intense hostile ground fire Captain Barnhart successfully completed his mission, achieving compete photographic coverage of all assigned targets, and subsequently provided significant intelligence data concerning strategic hostile infiltration routes in Southeast Asia. The professional competence, aerial skill, and devotion to duty displayed by Captain Barnhart reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.