The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Captain John Drayton Wainwright, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. TANADORES, engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of transporting and escorting troops and supplies to European ports through waters infested with enemy submarines and mines during World War I.
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Spring 1927
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Navy Cross to Captain John Drayton Wainwright, United States Navy, for distinguished service to the Government of the United States in a duty of responsibility as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. CLEVELAND, in Nicaraguan Waters in the Spring of 1927, Nicaragua then being in a state of insurrection. Largely through his good judgment, tact, patience and ability, good order was maintained and disarmament accomplished in districts ashore assigned to his command without friction and without bloodshed. Captain Wainwright’s actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.