COLONEL RONALD B. HUBBARD, (then Captain), Third Bombardment Group, Air Corps, United States Army. For extraordinary heroism in action near Cebu and Davao, Philippine Islands, on April 11-12, 1942. When the unit to which he was assigned was scheduled to proceed from Australia to the Philippine Islands on bombing missions, Captain Hubbard, although so ill from dengue fever that he had been removed from the list of airplane commanders, volunteered and was permitted to make the flight as bombardier in the lead airplane. He completed four bombing missions with signal success, in one of them obtaining a hit on an enemy transport which caused it to capsize. On another mission, he manned the nose machine gun of his plane after completion of the bombing run and shot down a hostile seaplane.

Colonel Hubbard joined the Legion of Valor in 1962 and resided in Ohio.