COLONEL PIERRE (PETER) ORTIZ. After a few months respite, returned to action behind enemy lines and received a Gold Star in lieu of a second Navy Cross for his extraordinary […]
Citations in 1st Oak Leaf Cluster or Gold Star:
RADM Lewis S Parks
REAR ADMIRAL LEWIS S. PARKS, USN, accounts for three awards of the Navy Cross. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Admiral Parks was a lieutenant commander on 12 April […]
GEN George S Patton III
General George S. Patton, III was awarded his second D.S.C. on 24 September 1968, during a joint operation between the 36th Vietnam Rangers and Troop B of his 11th Armored […]
COL Herbert Gale Peabody
COLONEL HERBERT GALE PEABODY, was awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster, by direction of the President, in addition to the Distinguished Service Cross awarded to First Lieutenant Herbert G. Peabody, by […]
George E Pierce
View Mr. Pierce’s Navy Cross.
CMDR Richard Rockwell Pratt
COMMANDER RICHARD ROCKWELL PRATT, United States Navy. For extraordinary heroism as Commanding Officer of U.S.S. HUDSON during operations against enemy Japanese forces in the vicinity of Okinawa Gunto on May […]
Benjamin G Preston
Mr. Preston joined the Legion of Valor in 1985. View Mr. Preston’s Navy Cross and Second Gold Star.
COL Lewis B Puller
No citation currently on file. Colonel Puller was posthumously enrolled into the Legion of Valor during the 2005 annual Convention held in Fresno, California. View his other awards: Distinguished Service […]
VADM Lawson Paterson Ramage
VADM LAWSON PATERSON RAMAGE, was awarded the Gold Star for valor in action at Midway, Truk, the Solomons, and in the South China Sea. VADM Ramage had been a member […]
CAPT William C Raposa
LIEUNTENANT, JUNIOR GRADE, WILLIAM CLAYTON RAPOSA, UNITED STATES NAVY. (Gold Star in lieu of the Second Navy Cross). “For extraordinary heroism as Pilot of a Torpedo Bomber in Torpedo Squadron […]