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Awards Received

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Lieutenant

    Division:

    U.S.S. Pampanito (SS-383)

    Action Date:

    September 15, 1944

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 355 (October 1946)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Ted N. Swain, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct as Officer-in-Charge of survivors of the U.S.S. PAMPANITO (SS-383), in the rescue of British and Australian Prisoners of War off the Island of Hainan in the South China Sea on 15 September 1944.