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The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Captain Henry Ellis Lackey, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious service in a position of great responsibility in charge of the Naval Ordnance Proving Ground and Powder Factory, in handling and testing the great amount of ordnance material with which that station was called upon to deal, so rapidly as to maintain a constant flow of absolutely necessary material to the service during World War I.

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