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 Captain Floyd R. Lockhart for heroism while participating in aerial flight as rescue crew pilot near Da Nang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, on 18 November 1964. On that date, Captain Lockhart piloted an HH-43F helicopter which rescued eight survivors of an aircraft crash sixty miles southwest of Da Nang. The rescue mission was flown in extremely hazardous weather and under constant threat of hostile ground fire. The outstanding heroism and selfless devotion to duty displayed by Captain Lockhart reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.