Navy Cross

The Navy Cross is awarded to a person who, while serving in any capacity with the Navy or Marine Corps, distinguishes himself by extraordinary heroism not justifying the award of the Medal of Honor

(a) while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;

(b) while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or

(c) while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.

To warrant this distinctive decoration, the act or the execution of duty must be performed in the presence of great danger or at great personal risk and must be performed in such a manner as to set the individual apart from his shipmates or fellow Marines. An accumulation of minor acts of heroism does not justify the award. The high standards demanded must be borne in mind when recommending the award.

The U.S.  Navy helicopter recipients of this award are as followed:

AMM2  Ernie Larue Crawford USN                      
LT Clarence L. “LeRoy” Cook, USN  LCDR David Murphy, USN                                 AMM3 Callis Gooding, USN                                 
LTJG Jeffrie Wiant, USN   LT James Walker, USN  LTJG Harold McEachern, USN
LT William Young, USN  AC1 Lloyd William, Jr, USN  AMM3 George M. Neal, USN
LT Harry Zinser, USN  LTJG Robert Baratko, USN  LT Robert Burnand, Jr, USN
LT Neil Sparks, USN  AN Norman Stayon, USN  AET2 Anthony Hanson, USN
 CAPT John Thornton, USN  CPO Arlene Babbitt, USN  LCDR Allen Weseleskey, USN
VADM Charles T. Booth, II, USN-First U.S. Navy Helicopter Pilot    

 

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The Marine Corps helicopter recipients of this award are as follows:

1/LT Arthur Richard Bancroft USMC  CAPT Frank E. Wilson       USMC CAPT Rupert E. Fairfield USMC
CAPT Bobby Frank Galbreath USMC  MAJ William Joseph Goodsell USMC  MAJ William H. Huffcut II USMC
 LCPL John G. Phelps USMC  GSGT Leroy N. Poulson USMC  CPL Bobby Wayne Abshire USMC
 MAJ Vincil E. Hazelbaker USMCR  1/LT Anthony Paskevich USMCR  MAJ Donald Joseph Reilly USMC
 MAJ David L. Ross USMC  MSGT Robert L. Cover USMC  LCPL Alan C. Lefler USMC
 1/LT Lee Michael Halstead USMCR  CAPT Thomas C. McDonald USMCR  2/LT Donald Joseph Berger USMC
 LTCOL Charles Alne House USMC   MAJ Bennie H. Mann, Jr. USMC  CAPT Lawrence R. Adams III USMCR

 

MAJ Robert G. Mitchell USMC 1/LT William Lee Peters, Jr. USMCR LTCOL Richard E. Romine USMC LCPL Ernesto Gomez USMC
MAJ Robert P. Guay USMC CAPT John J. Barrett USMC LTCOL Walter R. Ledbetter USMC MAJ Bertram V. McCauley USMC
LTCOL Eugene R. Brady USMC 1/LT Joseph P. Donovan USMCR  COL Michael M. Kurth, USMC  SGT Kenneth A. Altazan, USMC

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