Vice Admiral ROY A. GANO, Commander, Military Sea Transportation Service, Department of the Navy, was twice awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while commanding USS Dyson, a destroyer assigned to Destroyer Squadron Twenty-three (nicknamed the Little Beavers Squadron). His first Navy Cross was for extraordinary heroism displayed in a night engagement with six enemy Japanese warships off Bougainville, British Solomon Islands, on November 24-25, 1943. He fought his ship with resolute courage and daring aggressiveness, frequently risking his own personal safety to press home vigorous, unrelenting attacks upon japanese surface forces, thus contributing materially to the crushing defeat imposed upon the enemy in the sinking of four ships and the serious damaging of two others.

View Admiral Gano’s Gold Star Citation.

Admiral Gano, joined the Legion of Valor in 1962.