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Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to First Lieutenant Samuel H. Mann for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight against the enemy in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Throughout many combat missions against highly important and strategic enemy installations, Lieutenant Mann demonstrated the highest order of professional skill, heroism, leadership and devotion to duty. Despite heavy enemy opposition encountered on these long and hazardous missions, together with severe and adverse weather conditions, Lieutenant Mann's conspicuous and extraordinary achievements throughout these many missions against the enemy have been of inestimable value to successful combat operations and have reflected great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of the United States.