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George Tweed, the sailor rescued in this citation, was a Navy enlisted man who escaped and evaded the Japanese after the fall of Guam in December 1941 and held out along in a cave on Guam until the time of his rescue.

Awards Received

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Gunner’s Mate Second Class

    Division:

    U.S.S. McCall

    Action Date:

    July 10, 1944

    Commander 1st Carrier Task Force: Serial 0489 (August 31, 1944)

    The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Gunner’s Mate Second Class Peres Baldwin Bonney (NSN: 3934425), United States Navy, for heroism in rescuing Radioman First Class George Roger Tweed, 3927293, U.S. Navy from one of the Japanese held islands of the Marianas Group on 10 July 1944. Under conditions of great personal danger from enemy fire, which had been directed against his ship, a United States Destroyer, at a different point on the coast half an hour previously, with complete disregard of his own safety, he volunteered to engaged in the rescue and courageously participated as a member of the landing party from that destroyer, which succeeded in making a landing through unfamiliar reefs under continual threat of close enemy fire, and thereafter delivered Tweed to the destroyer. His heroic conduct performed under the strong probability of enemy fire, in the face of great danger to himself, was at all times in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.