William F. Amsden

The Navy Cross is awarded to Lieutenant Commander William F. Amsden, U.S. Navy, for exceptionally distinguished service in the line of his profession in command of the U.S.S. Barry in making the trip of 11,000 miles from Manila, P.I. To Gibraltar, under very unfavorable weather conditions, the southwest monsoon being then at its height, and arriving in the Mediterranean with his vessel in readiness for immediate participation in the operations against enemy submarines in the Mediterranean and later in the Atlantic.