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Awards Received

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Motor Machinist’s Mate Third Class

    Division:

    U.S.S. PGM 18

    Action Date:

    April 8, 1945

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 377 (July 1948)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Motor Machinist’s Mate Third Class Stanley H. Jolly, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct in giving up his life jacket for a wounded shipmate at the time that he received the order to abandon ship, serving aboard the U.S.S. PGM 18, at Okinawa, on 8 April 1945.