AWARDED DFC: 1
CONFLICT/SPACE FLIGHT/EVENT:  WWII
MODEL:  Bomber

Citation:  1.) The President of the United States takes great pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Staff Sergeant John E. Trawicki, Jr., for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight in the Mediterranean and North African Theatres of Operations. Showing a high order of courage, leadership, and professional skill, Staff Sergeant John E. Trawicki, Jr., distinguished himself throughout many long and hazardous combat missions against the enemy, despite severe and adverse weather conditions and enemy opposition by large numbers of fighter aircraft and intense, accurate, and heavy anti-aircraft fire. Displaying great combat spirit and aggressiveness, Staff Sergeant Trawicki has engaged and defeated the enemy regardless of the odds and in spite of the fact that, at times, his plane was so severely damaged that only extraordinary skill and fortitude was he able to fight his way through to the objective and aid in the grave damage inflicted upon the enemy. By his heroism, skill, and airmanship, as shown throughout his combat career, together with his intense devotion to duty during this period of intense combat operations against the enemy, he has upheld the highest traditions of the Military Service, thereby reflecting great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of the United States of America.