Navy Federal Credit Union

The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Chief Boatswain’s Mate William H. Schmidt, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commander of the Armed Guard of the S.S. Amphion, and in an engagement with an enemy submarine. On 12 October 1918, the submarine was sighted and an engagement followed, which lasted one hour and twenty minutes during which the ship was hit several times, after which the submarine disappeared.

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