Steven Potter

The Navy Cross is awarded to Ensign Steven Potter, U.S. Navy (Reserve Forces), for distinguished and heroic service as an aviator attached to the British Royal Air Force. Ensign Potter participated in a number of offensive patrols in the North Sea and on March 13, 1918, shot down and destroyed an enemy seaplane. He was himself shot down in flames in the North Sea on April 25, 1918.