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Awards Received

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Chief Boatswain’s Mate

    Division:

    U.S.S. YTL 210

    Action Date:

    August 15, 1944

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 378 (August 1948)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Chief Boatswain’s Mate Roy C. Porsley, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct in effecting the rescue of nineteen survivors who were in the water while he was attached to the U.S.S. YTL 201, during the invasion of Southern France, on 15 August 1944.