Navy Federal Credit Union

Awards Received

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Radioman Third Class

    Action Date:

    World War II

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 325 (April 1944)

    The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy and Marine Corps Medal (Posthumously) to Radioman Third Class Anthony John Rizzi, United States Navy, for heroic conduct during World War II. Fatally wounded, burned and blinded by an explosion in his vessel during the invasion of Sicily in 1943, Radioman Third Class Rizzi dragged a severely wounded shipmate through a flaming radio room to an entrance where the man could be moved to safety.