[[Gaston Doumergue]], the [[President of France]], bestowed the French [[Légion d'honneur]] on Lindbergh, and on his arrival back in the United States aboard the U.S. Navy [[cruiser]] on , 1927, a fleet of warships and multiple flights of military aircraft escorted him up the [[Potomac River]] to the [[Washington Navy Yard]], where President [[Calvin Coolidge]] awarded him the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|Distinguished Flying Cross]].