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(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, United States Navy, was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Naval delegate to the Inter-American Defense Board, with temporary additional duties as Naval member on Joint Mexican-U.S. Defense Commission, and Senior Naval Member of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, Canada-U.S., from 30 March 1942 to August 1945.

Awards Received

  • Navy Distinguished Service Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Captain

    Division:

    U.S.S. Conyngham

    Action Date:

    October 19, 1917
    Authority: Navy Book of Distinguished Service (Stringer)

    The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Captain Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. CONYNGHAM, engaged in the important, exacting, and hazardous duty of patrolling the waters infested with enemy submarines and mines, in escorting and protecting vitally important convoys of troops and supplies through these waters, and in offensive and defensive action, vigorously and unremittingly prosecuted, against all forms of enemy naval activity; and especially for an attack upon an enemy submarine on 19 October 1917, during which attack the CONYNGHAM was directly over the submarine and dropped a depth bomb which is believed to have destroyed the submarine.