SGT Emery L Entrekin

SERGEANT EMERY L. ENTREKIN, awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession in Haiti, May 19, 1920. With total disregard of personal danger he attacked, with Captain Jesse L. Perkins and two other enlisted men, a band of about seventy-five armed bandits of the Mirebalais District, resulting in the death of the greatest bandit leader, Benoit Batraville, and the practical suppression of banditry throughout the District.

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