Navy Federal Credit Union

Awards Received

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Lieutenant

    Action Date:

    World War II

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 322 (January 1944)

    The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Lieutenant William L. McRaven, United States Navy, for heroic conduct while serving aboard a United States Submarine during a war patrol in enemy controlled waters during World War II. Under constant threat of attack by enemy submarines and aircraft, Lieutenant McRaven, as Aviation Advisor, assisted in the landing of personnel on an emergency airplane landing strip in the Aleutian Islands, Territory of Alaska, despite an unprotected beach and bad flying weather.