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   Korean War 

Statistics:

• A total of 268 Navy Crosses were Awarded for heroism in Korea

  • Two men earned TWO Navy Crosses in Korea

• This list represents 266 different men who received Navy Crosses in Korea 

  • U.S. Navy - 41

  • U.S. Marines - 224

  • U.S. Army - 3

• 94 awards of the Navy Cross were posthumous awards

  • U.S. Navy - 13

  • U.S. Marines - 80

  • U.S. Army - 1

• John Page (USA) earned the Navy Cross and the Medal of Honor in Korea

• Lewis Puller (USMC) earned his 5th Navy Cross and the DSC in Korea

• Four WWII Navy Cross recipients earned a 2nd award in Korea

• One Korean War Navy Cross recipient earned a 2nd award in Vietnam

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Abell, Welton R. (USMC)	Adams, Richard J. (USMC)	Alley, David W. (USMC)
Adams, Jon D. (USMC)	Alexander, George W. (USMC)	Austin, Wayne D. (USN)
B
Babbitt, Arlene K. (USN)	Benavides, Adolfo (USMC)	Brady, Joseph C. (USN)
*Bancroft, Arthur R. (USMC)	Betts, Elmer R. (USMC)	*Bratback, Earl B. (USMC)
Banks, Charles L. (USMC)	Betts, Harrison F. (USMC)	Breen, Richard R. (USMC)
Banning, Virgil W. (USMC)	Blasongame, Richard N. (USMC)	*Brewer, Donald E. (USN)
Barbosa, Arthur G. (USMC)	Blick, Joseph A. (USMC)	Britt, William C. (USMC)
Barlow, Quinton T. (USMC)	Bolt, John F. (USMC)	Brown, Dale W. (USN)
Barrett, John M. (USMC)	*Booker, Dorsie H. (USMC)	*Brown, William P. Jr. (USMC)     OLC (1st Award WWII)
*Barrett, Ora E. (USMC)	*Borawski, Walter C. (USMC)
Barrow, Robert H. (USMC)	Bordelon, Guy Pierre (USN)	*Bryant, Rollins M. (USMC)
Bates, William H. (USMC)	*Bowen, Murray M. (USN)	Burchick, Thomas A. (USN)
Beard, James T. (USMC)	Bowerman, Billie J. (USMC)	Burr, Phillip J. (USMC)
Beatty, Robert E. (USMC)	*Braaten, Palmer S. (USMC)	Butler, George H. (USMC)
Bell, Van D. (USMC)    1st Award (OLC in Vietnam))	Bradley, Bobbie B. (USMC)	*Butler, Wallace S. (USMC)
	**Bradshaw, Charles W. (USMC)
C
*Caldwell, Crayton L. (USMC)	Chinner, John W. (USMC)	Conaway, Lyle F.  (USMC)
*Canney, John J. (USMC)	*Christensen, Thomas A. (USN)	Counselman, John D. (USMC)
* Cardillo, Mario (USMC)	Christofferson, Bernard W. (USMC)	Crawford, Ernie LaRue (USN)
*Chadwick, Fred D. (USMC)	Churchill, Joe V. (USN)	Cross, Frank S. (USMC)
Chain, William B. (USMC)	Clark, Eugene F. (USN)
Chenoweth, Theodore H. (USMC)	*Collins, Albert H. (USMC)
D
Daigneault, Donald A. (USMC)	Demas, John G. (USMC)	*Dragastin, Marion T. (USN)
Dailey, Joseph W. (USMC)	Dirst, Lloyd V. (USMC)	Dukes, Matthew D. (USMC)
*Davis, James C. (USMC)	Doezema, Richard M. (USMC)	Dunay, Andrew F. (USMC)
E	F	G
*Ehrlich, Leland E. (USMC)	Fauser, David K (USMC)	Gallagher, James P. (USMC)
*Elliott, Robert J. (USMC)	Fenwick, John L. (USMC)	*Gaul, William M. (USMC)
*Elmore, George W. (USMC)	Fielding, Teddy Roosevelt (USN)	*George, Walter W. (USMC)
*Elwell, John B. (USMC)	Fisher, Joseph R. (USMC)	Gilligan, Donald W. (USMC)
Estey, Ralph F. (USMC)	*Fitzpatrick, George F. (USMC)	Giovannucci, Joseph L. (USMC)
	*Foster, Charlie (USMC)	*Givot, Martin L. (USMC)
	Foster, Fred T. (USN)	Gooding, Callis C. (USN)
	*Fristock, Edward (USMC)	Green, Rodney J. (USMC)
		*Guild, John N. (USMC)
		*Gzik, Richard Stanley (USMC)
H
Hamby, John H.   (USMC)	Herndon, Wilbur N. (USMC)	*House, Russell J. (USMC)
*Harris, Weldon D. (USMC)	*Hightower, Ernest J. (USMC)	*Hovatter, Donald J. (USN)
**Harris, William F. (USMC)	Hilliard, Frederick E. (USMC)	Howard, Warren C. (USMC)
Harrison, Roy E. (USMC)	Holladay, Morse L. (USMC)	Hull, Milton A. (USMC)
**Harvey, Amon F. (USMC)	Holmberg, William C. (USMC)	*Hyde, David L. (USMC)
Hendrickson, Robert C. (USMC)	Holt, William P. (USMC)
Hensley, Howard C. (USMC)	Hopkins, John L. (USMC)
I	J	K
Ingemansson, Nils V. (USMC)	*Jackson, James E. (USMC)	Kee, Vance E. (USN)
	*Jackson, R.A. (USMC)	*Keenan, Joseph F. (USN)
	*Jenson, Austin C. (USMC)	Kiser, Harrol (USMC)
	Johnson, Horace L. (USMC)	Kita, Alex J. (USN)
	Johnson, Walter P. (USMC)	Knox, Edwin L. (USMC)
	Jones, Donald R. (USMC)	Kohler, Robert D. (USMC)
	Jones, Jack R. (USMC)	Kramer, Vincent R. (USMC)
		*Kurcaba, Joseph R. (USMC)
L
*Lambert, Donald F. (USMC)	*Lett, Lawrence E. (USMC)	Louder, Joseph J. (USMC)
Larson, Jack F. (USMC)	*Levasseur, Ronald N. (USMC)	*Lourim, William B. (USMC)
Lawrence, James F. (USMC)	Little, Charles G. (USMC)	*Lovett, Frank E. (USMC)
*Lee, Benjamin G. (USMC)	Litzenberg, Homer L. (USMC)     Also Awarded the DSC in Korea	Lutz, Eugene L. (USMC)
Lee, Chew E. (USMC)    (Named Changed to Kurt C.)		Lutz, Theodore J. (USMC)
	Livingston, William J. (USMC)
*Leeds, Joseph R. (USMC)	Lorence, Herbert M. (USMC)
M
*Magda, John J. (USN)	McEachern, Harold O. (USN)	Mize, Charles D. (USMC)
Mallette, Perry A. (USMC)	McGahn, Patrick T. (USMC)	Monroe, Charles H. (USMC)
Markland, Frederick J. (USMC)	McGuire, Thomas P. (USMC)	Moody, Clarence G. (USMC)
Mason, Donald E. (USN)	McNaughton, George C. (USMC)	*Morrison, Anthony G. (USMC)
Matheney, Richard (USMC)	*McVeen, James H. (USN)	Murphy, Daniel M. (USMC)
*Mathewson, Bruce (USMC)	Meade, John F. (USMC)	Murray, Benjamin H. (USMC)
Mausen, John E. (USN)	Melvin, John B. (USMC)	Murray, Raymond L. (USMC)     OLC (1st Award in WWII)     Also awarded DSC in Korea
McCloskey, Paul N. (USMC)	*Merrick, Richard Charles (USN)
McClung, William J. III (USMC)	Midkiff, Earl D. (USMC)
N		O
Neal, George Milton (USN)		*O'Donnell, Terrance W. (USN)
Nihart, Franklin B. (USMC)		*Ogden, James W. (USMC)
Nolan, Harvey W. (USMC)		Olivhovik, John (USA)
Noonkester, Henry E. (USMC)		Orsulak, Edmond T. (USMC)
**Nunez-Juarez, Ramon (USMC)		*O'Toole, James W. (USMC)
P
*Page, John U.D. (USA)    Also awarded MOH in Korea	*Penney, Chester O. (USMC)	*Pope, Charles E. (USN)
	Peters, Uel D. (USMC)	Puckett, Clinton A.  (USMC)
Parker, Waller J. (USN)	Petro, George E. (USMC)	Puller, Lewis B. (USMC)     4th OLC (2 Awards Nicaragua)                  (2 Awards WWII)     Also awarded DSC in Korea
*Parks, Donald L. (USMC)	*Phillips, Walter D. (USMC)
*Peach, Earle F. (USMC)	Polley, Paul N. (USN)
R
*Ramsay, Arlis W. (USMC)	*Roberts, Clayton L. (USMC)	Rowe, John A. (USMC)
*Raymond, Robert J. (USMC)	Robinson, Stanley S. (USMC)	Roy, Franklin D. (USMC)
Read, Benjamin S. (USMC)	Roise, Harold S. (USMC)    OLC (2 Awards Earned in Korea)	*Rust, Charles V. (USMC)
Reusser, Kenneth L. (USMC)    OLC (1st Award in WWII)		*Ryan, Howard (USMC)
	Romero-Nieves, Enrique (USMC)
S
Salsberry, Robert B. (USMC)	*Smith, Billy D.   (USN)	Stevens, John W. II (USMC)
Sawyer, Webb D. (USMC)	*Smith, David E. (USMC)	Stewart, Roy L. (USMC)
Scott, James E. (USMC)	*Smith, H. J. (USMC)	Stone, Cletus H. (USN)
Seeburger, Edward H. (USMC)	Smith, Loren R. (USMC)	Stouffer, Frederick E. (USMC)
Seldal, Russell J. (USMC)	Smith, Raymond C. (USMC)	*Stropes, Dale L. (USMC)
Serrano, Robert (USN)	Smith, Samuel S. (USMC)	*Sulliman, George S. (USMC)
Shonk, Walter C. (USMC)	Snelling, Edward W. (USMC)	Sutter, Allan (USMC)
Shouldice, Darcy V. (USN)	Southall, James B. (USMC)	Swigart, Oral R. (USMC)
Sigmund, Louis J. (USMC)	Speir, Frank (USA)
*Smalley, Lloyd B. (USMC)	*Stephen, James W. (USMC)
T	U	V
*Taft, Kenneth E. (USMC)	*Umbaugh, Ernest J. (USMC)	*Valentine, Earl L. (USMC)
Taplett, Robert D. (USMC)		Vestal, Lucian L. (USMC)
*Thomas, Francis R.   (USMC)		*Vogel, Raymond. (USN)
*Thompson, Will A. (USMC)
**Thornton, John William (USN)
*Tidwell, Gerald G. (USMC)
*Toland, Donald T. (USMC)
Touchette, Robert F. (USMC)
Trombly, Alfred D. (USN)
W
Waddill, Thomas, H. (USN)	Wawrzniak, Stanley J.   (USMC)    OLC (2 Awards Earned in Korea	*Williams, Leslie C. (USMC)
Wagner, Robert C. (USN)		Wilson, Frank E. (USMC)
*Walter, Stephen C. (USMC)	Weisgerber, William D. (USMC)	*Wilson, Loyd J. (USMC)
*Walz, Ralph L. (USMC)	West, Robley E. (USMC)	Wolf, Wilmot H.   (USMC)
Ward, Joseph M. (USMC)	Westerman, Jack (USMC)	Word, John G. (USMC)
Wasson, Marvin L. (USMC)	Whear, Roger G. (USN)	*Worster, Vance O. (USMC)
Watson, John E. (USMC)	*Williams, Jack V. (USMC)	* Indicates Posthumous Award  ** Indicates Missing In Action
V
Yancey, John   (USMC)  OLC (1st Award in WWII)
*Yates, George W. (USMC)

Navy Crosses were earned by at least 26 Navy Corpsmen (8 Posthumously)
Navy Crosses were earned by at least  4 Navy and 5 USMC Pilots

Korean War  Navy Cross Recipients
U. S. Navy	U. S. Marines
Detailed Alphabetical List	Detailed Alphabetical List
Detailed Chronological List	Detailed Chronological List

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