Clarence E. Dickinson, Jr.’s SECOND Navy Cross citation

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Navy Cross to

Clarence Earle Dickinson, Jr.

Lieutenant, U.S. Navy

for service as set forth in the following

CITATION:

for distinguished service in the line of his profession, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety, while serving as Flight Officer and a Pilot of a carrier-based Navy Scouting Plane of Scouting Squadron SIX (VS-6), embarked from the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE (CV-6), in action near Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, on 10 December 1942. While searching for an enemy submarine reported nearby, Lieutenant Dickinson sighted a submarine on the surface and dove through a hail of antiaircraft fire to attack the vessel and dropped a bomb. The submarine went down in a manner that indicated it had been damaged, or possibly destroyed. There was no evidence of a dive, such as a propeller wake, while a large bubble of oil and air came to the surface. Lieutenant Dickinson’s outstanding courage, daring airmanship and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.