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New open names from the battle of Midway: 04.06.1942 Philip R. White (??.??.????) 04.06.1942 John F. Carey (??.??.????) 04.06.1942 Richard Lloyd Blain (??.??.????) 04.06.1942 Clayton M. Canfield (??.??.????) 04.06.1942 Herbert T. Merrill (??.??.????) 04.06.1942 Roy A. Corry (??.??.????) 04.06.1942 Clifton Edward Snell (09.08.1912) 04.06.1942 Irving Herbert McPherson (15.04.1914) 04.06.1942 Robert Edward Laub (04.08.1917) 04.-05.06.1942 Robert Judy Bear (??.??.????) 04.-05.06.1942 Thomas F. Moore Jr. (??.??.????) 04.-05.06.1942 Clyde H. Stamps (??.??.????) 04.-05.06.1942 Leon M. Williamson (??.??.????) 04.-05.06.1942 George T. Lumpkin (??.??.????) 04.-05.06.1942 Eugene Tinsley Card (??.??.????) 04.-05.06.1942 Jack Cosley (??.??.????) 04.-05.06.1942 Daniel L. Cummings (??.??.????) 04.-05.06.1942 Jesse D. Rollow Jr. (27.02.1918) 04.-06.06.1942 George Hale Goldsmith (??.??.????) 04.-06.06.1942 Paul Wahl Schlegel (07.09.1909) 04.-06.06.1942 Stephen Clement Hogan Jr. (15.03.1915) 04.-06.06.1942 Wilbur Edison Roberts (17.04.1915) 04.-06.06.1942 Norman Jack Kleiss (07.03.1916) 04.-06.06.1942 Gordon Alvin Sherwood (24.09.1916) 04.-06.06.1942 Robert Keith Campbell (18.08.1917) 04.-06.06.1942 Reid Wentworth Stone (02.01.1918) 04.-06.06.1942 Thomas Wesley Ramsay (29.01.1918) 04.-06.06.1942 John Reginald McCarthy (01.03.1918) 04.-06.06.1942 Milford Austin Merrill (16.02.1920) 05.-06.06.1942 Alden Wilbur Hanson (??.??.????) 06.06.1942 Frederic Leeson Bates (10.07.1913) 06.06.1942 Robert P. Friesz (16.05.1918) 06.06.1942 Clayton Evan Fisher (14.01.1919) 06.06.1942 Joe Wiley King (09.02.1919)

Now I will list the single Navy Cross recipients where I´ve no date of death. But this will take some time, ... The first date is the date of action, the second date is the date of birth. 30.10.1941 Theodore Leo Jermann (08.02.1894) 30.10.1941 Raul Solen Wilson (24.12.1913) 07.12.1941 George Daniel Etcell (02.04.1898) 07.12.1941 Alfred Lawrence Hansen (21.05.1898) 07.12.1941 Charles E. Douglas (05.02.1906) 07.12.1941 Gordon Ernest Bolser (21.07.1910) 07.12.1941 James William Robb Jr. (13.09.1912) 07.12.1941 John Perry Edwards (15.05.1913) 07.12.1941 Wesley Hoyt Ruth (06.11.1913) 07.12.1941 William Sloan Fleming (28.03.1916) 07.12.1941 Perry L. Teaff (20.04.1916) 07.12.1941 John Barth Vaessen (10.07.1916) 07.12.1941 Dale L. Peters (08.01.1917) 07.12.1941 Robert Ellsworth Thomas Jr. (06.07.1919) 07.12.1941 Harry R. Mead (29.03.1921) 07.12.1941 - 23.12.1941 Charles C. Hill (??.??.????) 07.12.1941 - 28.12.1941 Edward Raymond Joseph Griffin (??.??.????) 07.12.1941 - 07.01.1942 George R. Mitchell (23.08.1915) 07.12.1941 - 18.03.1942 Egbert Adolph Roth (10.12.1905) 08.12.1941 - 23.12.1941 Robert O. Arthur ( ??.??.????) 10.12.1941 Rintoul T. Whitney (11.07.1889) 10.12.1941 Clifford A. Hanson (04.03.1908) 10.12.1941 Robert W. Granston (28.12.1916) 10.12.1941 John Porter Adams (??.??.????) 23.12.1941 James Frank Hesson (??.??.????) 01.02.1942 William F. Verden (??.??.????) 04.02.1942 Peter Paul Martinek (29.06.1910) 04.02.1942 Herman Edward Hock (27.04.1912) 04. & 07.-08.05.1942 Edward James Williamson (16.12.1909) 04. & 07.-08.05.1942 Henry Martin McDowell (18.05.1915) 04. & 07.-08.05.1942 Elmer Maul (07.11.1915) 07.05.1942 Curtis Weldon L. Hamilton (??.??.????) 07. -08.05.1942 Arthur J. White (15.11.1889) 08.05.1942 John Raymond Gorman (??.??.????) 08.05.1942 Robert F. Edmondson (13.01.1917) 26.05.1942 Edward G. Binning (06.02.1915) 01.-15.06.1942 William N. Thies (04.02.1917) 03.06.1942 Lucius D. Campbell (10.09.1908) 04.-05.06.1942 Robert Judy Bear (??.??.????)

I´m now completly ready with all multiple recipients from WW2. There are more than 300 persons. I´ve now 20 persons without an date of deaths. 3 Navy Crosses Noel Arthur Meredyth Gayler ( * 25.12.1913) Stanley Winfield Vejtasa ( * 27.07.1914) George Edward Ferguson ( * ??.??.????) 2 Navy Crosses Donald Joseph Melvin (* 10.12.1911) John Thomas Maloney (* 07.05.1916) Eugene R. Hanson (* 16.05.1917) Robert W. Vaupell (* 14.10.1917) Orville Melvin Cook (* 11.03.1922) Ray Joseph Stacy (* 20.05.1922) Robert Featherstone Birch (* ??.??.????) Gordon Percival Chase (* ??.??.????) Joseph Brokaw Geisler (* ??.??.????) Richard Donald Greer Jr. (* ??.??.????) Kenneth Charles Hall (* ??.??.????) Charles Herman Mester Jr. (* ??.??.????) Robert Salisbury Nesbitt (* ??.??.????) Vincent Patrick O'Rourke (* ??.??.????) William C. Raposa (* ??.??.????) Harold John Smith (* ??.??.????) Paul Hobart Whitford (* ??.??.????) The next question would be where I can find the missing dates of birth ? Than I can also check these names.

Once again to Harold Ralph Mazza (* 15.11.1912). He was born in California. In the Social Death Index is an Harold Mazza. He was born on 15.11.1911 and died in June 1956. Could it be the same person ??

Many thanks for this info. After a little more than the half of the double recipients I´ve now the following list: 4 Navy Crosses Harold Ralph Mazza (* 15.11.1912) 3 Navy Crosses Noel Arthur Meredyth Gayler ( * 25.12.1913) Stanley Winfield Vejtasa ( * 27.07.1914) George Edward Ferguson ( * ??.??.????) 2 Navy Crosses Donald Joseph Melvin (* 10.12.1911) Eugene R. Hanson (* 16.05.1917) John Thomas Maloney (* 07.05.1916) Orville Melvin Cook (* 11.03.1922) Robert Featherstone Birch ( * ??.??.????) Gordon Percival Chase ( * ??.??.????) Joseph Brokaw Geisler (* ??.??.????) Richard Donald Greer Jr. (* ??.??.??) Kenneth Charles Hall (* ??.??.????) Charles Herman Mester Jr. (* ??.??.????)

Tony Frederic Schneider passed away on 16.10.2010.

What is with John Arthur Leppla (* 07.05.1916) ?? I´m not sure if he died in 1945. Is there an list online with the US casualties in Wolrd War Two ? An list like the Social Death Index ?

Oh, sorry. I was too fast. The Social Death Index begins in the 1960´s. I´ve found in another source that Jensen died on 06.06.1949.

The next double recipient I´ve found is Hayden Martin Jensen (* 30.01.1911) If he is really still alive than he is older than age 100. He was a fighter pilot with totaly 5 air victories.

Eugene R. Hanson (* 16.05.1917) Kenneth Charles Hall (* ??.??.????)

The next double recipient I´ve found with an for me unknown date of birth is: Richard Donald Greer Jr. (* ??.??.??) There is no person with this name in the Social Death Index . So he could be still alive.

Benjamin Gifford Preston died on 26.03.2001 So we have at the moment the following list: 4 Navy Crosses Harold Ralph Mazza (* 15.11.1912) 3 Navy Crosses Stanley Winfield Vejtasa ( * 27.07.1914) Noel Arthur Meredyth Gayler ( * 25.12.1913) George Edward Ferguson ( * ??.??.????) 2 Navy Crosses Tony Frederic Schneider (* 11.11.1917) Orville Melvin Cook (* 11.03.1922) Robert Featherstone Birch ( * ??.??.????) Gordon Percival Chase ( * ??.??.????) Joseph Brokaw Geisler (* ??.??.????)

Another one from the double recipients with an for me unknown date of birth is: Joseph Brokaw Geisler (* ??.??.????)

We have no dates of births. So we don´t know if this is right. But I´ve another one who could be still alive: Orville Melvin Cook (* 11.03.1922)

And we have George Edward Ferguson ( * ??.??.????) with also no date of birth. The first two who were awarded with the Navy Cross for two times where I can´t find also no dates of birth are: Robert Featherstone Birch ( * ??.??.????) Gordon Percival Chase ( * ??.??.????)

Many thanks for the info about the Social Security Death Index. Very intersting. This will helps very much. So we have the following multiple recipients: 4 Navy Crosses Harold Ralph Mazza (* 15.11.1912) 3 Navy Crosses Benjamin Gifford Preston ( * 16.12.1913) Stanley Winfield Vejtasa ( * 27.07.1914) Noel Arthur Meredyth Gayler ( * 25.12.1913) 2 Navy Crosses Tony Frederic Schneider (* 11.11.1917) At the moment Schneider is the only men who is known to me as still alive.

How many Navy Cross recipients from World War 2 are still alive as today ? Perhaps we can find some names ? I´ve 11 possible recipients. I will start with the multiple recipients. 8 persons were awarded with the Nacy Cross for four times. For one I can´t find an death date. It is Harold Ralph Mazza (* 15.11.1912). Is he still alive ? 53 persons were awarded with the Navy Cross for three times. For three of them I can´t find death dates. Benjamin Gifford Preston ( * 16.12.1913) Stanley Winfield Vejtasa ( * 27.07.1914) Noel Arthur Meredyth Gayler ( * 25.12.1913) I know Gayler is still alive. What is with Preston and Vejtasa ?? And for an fourth man I can find completly no life dates: George Edward Ferguson ( * ??.??.????)

I think the Air Force Cross was awarded to him last year. So now there are three recipients for action in World War 2. Have a look at here: http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=3616

Sorry for my only few words at the beginning of this topic. I´m very interested in the Air Force Cross and his recipients. I collect all dates which I can find. A lot of dates are missing. And perhaps another one can help me. For exemplare I´m on the search for some dates of birth: Charles L. Brown, all I know is the year 1922 Russell M. Hunt, all I know is the year 1946 William C. Norris, all I know is the year 1926 Thomas Henry Kirk Jr., all I know is the year 1928 Dennis M. Richardson Rowland W. Purser Jon D. Harston, July 1948

Hello to all, is there anybody who is interested in the history of the Air Force Cross and his recipients ?

There are two men with the name Eibenstein with the St. Henry. Rudolf and Benno Eibenstein. I think they must be brothers, because they have the same place of birth. And the men in the pic could be brothers, ...

Thanks Stefan ! This was the reason I?ve said Heydenreich was an artillery man. This is all what we know: The pic was made in Chemnitz after March 1918 and it shoes an Infantry Major.

Andy, many thanks for your possible help. Heydenreich would be artillery ??

The last info I?ve is that the pic was made in Chemnitz.

Hello Rick, how many names would it be ? Would it be possible that you can tell these names ??