AWARDED DFC: 1
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Citation:  1.) The Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism while participating in aerial flight as a pilot of a fighter plane against the enemy on 6 June 1951. First Lieutenant Tooker, as a section leader in a four-plane flight on a close air support mission east of the Hwach'on Reservoir in Korea, worked in conjunction with the Forward Air Controller of a Marine Battalion that was pinned down by Chinese Communist troops. In spite of intense small arms fire and extremely adverse weather conditions, First Lieutenant Tooker repeatedly led his section in making minimum altitude attacks with napalm, rockets and strafing against the entrenched enemy troops. These successful attacks enabled the United Nations forces to occupy this important objective with negligible opposition. Three hundred enemy dead were confirmed by the occupying forces. With unerring judgment and outstanding airmanship, First Lieutenant Tooker dealt a damaging blow to the enemy. His aggressive actions and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.