AWARDED DFC: 1
CONFLICT/SPACE FLIGHT/EVENT:  -
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Citation:  1.) The Distinguished Flying Cross for distinguished and meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight against the enemy in operations against the Ploesti Oil Refineries of Roumania on 1 August 1943. First Lieutenant Ronsberg, of the 512th Bombardment Squadron, 376th Bombardment Group, did his part valorously and well in one of the most spectacular, daring and destructive raids ever attempted in aviation history. Skimming in at a level barely above the installations to be attacked, they encountered withering, gunfire from some of the world's heaviest concentrations of anti-aircraft batteries. Yet he continued in the performance of his duty, and in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, bombed and strafed with enormously destructive effect the heart of the enemy's fuel supply. His success in this most daring and hazardous enterprise not only brought great honor to himself, but contributed definitely to the final defeat of the enemy and the shortening of the war.