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Awards Received

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Quartermaster Second Class

    Division:

    U.S.S. LCT (G) 755

    Action Date:

    July 25, 1945

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 374 (April 1948)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Quartermaster Second Class Robert A. Drake, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct as a member of the crew of the U.S.S. LCT (G) 755, engaged in transporting Japanese ordnance supplies and surveyed American shells from Cavite, Philippine Islands, to a point beyond Corregidor and unloading them into the sea, on 25 July 1945.