Howard H. Benson

The Navy Cross is awarded to Lieutenant Commander Howard H. Benson, U.S. Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Corona and the U.S.S. Roe, engaged in the important, exacting, and hazardous duty of patrolling the waters infested by enemy submarines and mines, protecting vitally important convoys of troops and supplies through these waters, and in offensive and defensive action, vigorously and unremittingly prosecuted against all forms of enemy naval activity.