Navy Federal Credit Union

Recipients

  • James Phillips

    James Phillips

    James Phillips graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1919. Originally members of that class were the Class of 1921, but…

  • Lloyd Polette

    Lloyd Polette

    Lieutenant Polette’s DSC was awarded to him in proper ceremony on January 19, 1945. Two days later he was wounded in action, and died the…

  • Karl Polifka

    Karl Polifka

    Karl Polifka flew combat missions in World War II earning a Silver Star, and also flew reconnaissance missions during the Korean War, earning a second…

  • William Presley

    William Presley

  • John Hines

    John Hines

    John L. Hines, Jr.’s graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1927. He retired in 1952 as a U.S. Army Colonel.…

  • Merle Howe

    Merle Howe

    Colonel Howe was killed in action on August 30, 1945, near Luzon, Philippine Islands, on a mountainside above the Asine River.

  • George Jones

    George Jones

    George Jones graduated from the U. S. Military Academy with the Class of 1935. He retired in 1968 as a U.S. Army Brigadier General.

  • Richard Keyes

    Richard Keyes

  • Claiborne Kinnard

    Claiborne Kinnard

    Claiborne Kinnard graduated from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, before entering military service prior to World War II. During that war he became an ACE, and was…

  • Carl Lundquist

    Carl Lundquist

    Carl Lundquist graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1927. He retired in 1957 as a U.S. Army Colonel.

  • Lewis Lyle

    Lewis Lyle

    Lewis Lyle began his military career as an infantry lieutenant in 1938, entering active duty in 1940 in an anti-tank company. He was selected to…

  • Charles MacDonald

    Charles MacDonald

    Charles MacDonald graduated from Louisiana State University in 1938. Credited with 27 aerial victories in World War II, he was the highest ranking American ACE…