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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Lieutenant

    Batallion:

    Torpedo Squadron

    Division:

    U.S.S. Enterprise

    Action Date:

    September 10, 1944

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 339 (June 1945)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Jay Ross Manown, Jr. (NSN: 0-85973), United States Navy, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (Posthumously) for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as Executive Officer of a Torpedo Squadron embarked in U.S.S. ENTERPRISE, at the Palaus, on 10 September 1944.