COLONEL ROBERT F. McMAHON, (then Second Lieutenant), 33rd Pursuit Squadron (Provisional), Air Corps, United States Army. For extraordinary heroism in action near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, on February 19, 1942. Lieutenant McMahon was pilot of one of a flight of ten pursuit airplanes forced by unfavorable weather to turn back from a ferry flight from Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia to Koepang, Timor, Netherlands East Indies. When the flight arrived at Darwin, and before refueling could be effected, information of the approach of an enemy formation was received. When the approaching enemy, consisting of approximately sixty high-level bombers, thirty-six fighters and eighteen dive-bombers was intercepted, Lieutenant McMahon, in spite of the tremendous odds, courageously attacked the enemy formation, inflicting heavy damage, and continued the attack until his airplane was shot down.

COL McMahon resides in Colorado.