David F. Boyd

The Navy Cross is presented to David F. Boyd, Captain, U.S. Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as district commander, Cherbourg, and naval port officer, Le Havre, and later as Senior Naval Officer at Spalato, where through his prompt, decided and tactful action and his readiness to assume responsibility. Captain Boyd averted a clash between Italian and Serbian troops which but for his intervention would have resulted in a serious and very embarrassing international complication as well as in the loss of many lives.