AWARDED DFC: 1
CONFLICT/SPACE FLIGHT/EVENT:  -
MODEL:  -

Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain Walker R. Modlin for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as a Forward Air Controller in Southeast Asia on 10 March 1968. On that date, Captain Modlin supported friendly ground forces who were pinned down by heavy hostile weapons fire. Disregarding his own personal safety, he made numerous low level passes, marking targets with smoke rockets for eventual destruction by the strike aircraft. The professional competence, aerial skill and devotion to duty displayed by Captain Modlin reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.