According to two aviation historians, future President of the United States Lyndon Johnson accepted a medal in World War II for a "gallant action" he never performed. Here, on the day he supposedly "evidenced marked coolness in spite of the hazard involved," Johnson is greeted near Port Moresby, New Guinea, by Brigadier Generals Ralph Royce, Martin Scanlon, and William Marquat (with briefcase) of General Douglas MacArthur's staff.

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