Navy Federal Credit Union

Awards Received

  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal

    Service:

    United States Navy

    Rank:

    Chief Watertender

    Action Date:

    February 1, 1946

    Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 381 (November 1948)

    (Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Chief Watertender Linwood M. O’York, United States Navy, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroic conduct in rescuing an enlisted man who had fallen overboard from a boat in the Hwangpoo River, Shanghai, on 1 February 1946.