Honors: Navy Cross
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The Navy Cross may be awarded to any member of the armed
forces while serving with the Marine Corps, Navy, or Coast Guard (in time of
war only) who distinguishes himself in action by extraordinary heroism not
justifying an award of the . The action must take place: While engaged
in action against an enemy of the United States; Or while engaged in
military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; Or
while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict in
which the United States is not a belligerent party.
To earn a Navy Cross the act to be commended must be
performed in the presence of great danger or at great personal risk and must
be performed in such a manner as to render the individual highly conspicuous
among others of equal grade, rate, experience, or position of
responsibility. An accumulation of minor acts of heroism does not justify an
award of the Navy Cross. The Navy Cross is limited to acts of combat
heroism.
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24-25 October 1944: Joseph D. McGraw, Lieutenant, Junior Grade, USNR, USS Gambier Bay (CVE-63), VC-10 Gene Seitz, Lieutenant, USNR, USS Gambier Bay (CVE-63), VC-10
Citation in part: “Ensign McGraw intercepted a flight of approximately twenty-one enemy twin-engine bombers and bombers and eight fighters about to attack our troop laden transports and, pressing home aggressive attacks, succeeded in shooting down two bombers and damaging a third. … Launched from another carrier … and, serving as section leader of the local Combat Air Patrol later in the afternoon, [he] led his division in intercepting and dispersing a numerically superior force, personally shooting down several hostile aircraft.” Citation, part: "Lieutenant Seitz was launched … in the midst of a torpedo attack. Seeing an enemy torpedo plane crossing ahead of the carrier at low altitude, he coolly and deliberately charged his machine guns …, sharply banked his plane and with a burst of fire, shot down the enemy torpedo plane with an expertly placed deflection shot…He performed … with fearless determination in the face of grave danger…”
24-25 October 1944: Joseph D. McGraw, Lieutenant, Junior Grade, USNR, USS Gambier Bay (CVE-63), VC-10
Citation in part: “Ensign McGraw intercepted a flight of approximately twenty-one enemy twin-engine bombers and bombers and eight fighters about to attack our troop laden transports and, pressing home aggressive attacks, succeeded in shooting down two bombers and damaging a third. … Launched from another carrier … and, serving as section leader of the local Combat Air Patrol later in the afternoon, [he] led his division in intercepting and dispersing a numerically superior force, personally shooting down several hostile aircraft.”
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