AWARDED DFC: 1
CONFLICT/SPACE FLIGHT/EVENT:  WWII
MODEL:  B-29

Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Sergeant Willert H. Lynn, Air Corps, United States Army, 60th Bombardment Squadron, 39th Bombardment Group, Blister Gunner for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight 20 May 1945. Sergeant Lynn was a combat crew member of a B-29 aircraft on a daylight strike from a base in the Marianas against Yokohama, Japan. In route to the target they were subjected to intense flak but they resolutely held course and released their bombs squarely on the objective with devastating results. At the instant of bombs away, the entire preceding element was struck by a concentration of anti-aircraft fire. Two of the B-29's sustaining such heavy damage that they were forced to drop out of the formation. These crewmen at once maneuvered their plane alongside one of the crippled airplanes to give it protective cover. During the withdraw from the target, they were subjected to almost continuous heavy flak, inflicting farther damage. The courage, resourcefulness and skill displayed by Sergeant Lynn and these veterans of repeated assaults against the Japanese homeland reflect great credit on himself, the crew and the Army Air Forces.