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This incorrect information is now on all the official US records. He was stationed aboard the USS Bennington (PG-4) as a chief gunner's mate. On July 21, 1905, one of the USS Bennington's boilers exploded while it was in San Diego, California. For his actions he received the Medal of Honor on January 5, 1906. [2] [3]
Bennington aviators went after targets both at Tokyo and at Yokosuka, site of the large Japanese naval base. While their colleagues pounded Japan, pilots in Bennington ' s Combat Air Patrol (CAP) helped to protect TG 58.1 from air raids and shot down three intruders. On the negative side, her air group lost one plane to antiaircraft fire over ...
Boers was born March 10, 1884, in Cincinnati, Ohio and after joining the navy from Kentucky was stationed aboard the USS Bennington (PG-4) as a seaman. On July 21, 1905, the USS Bennington was in San Diego, California when a boiler exploded. For his actions received the Medal January 5, 1906. [1] [2] [3] He died April 2, 1929.
He served on two other ships before being transferred to the gunboat USS Bennington (PG-4). He was stationed aboard the USS Bennington as a hospital steward when on July 21, 1905, one of the USS Bennington's boilers exploded while it was in San Diego, California. Although he suffered severe third degree burns over much of his body in the ...
On July 21, 1905, the USS Bennington was in San Diego, California, when a boiler exploded. The combination of the explosion and the scalding steam killed a number of men outright and left others mortally wounded; the final death toll was one officer, Ensign Newman K. Perry and sixty-five men, making it one of the U.S. Navy's worst peacetime ...
The Battle of Bennington occurred on 16 August 1777. USS Bennington (PG-4) , was commissioned in 1891 and took possession of Wake Island during the Spanish–American War. USS Bennington (CV-20) , was an aircraft carrier of World War II and decommissioned in 1970.
Emil Fredericksen or Fredreksen (1867–1950) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.He earned the award for rescuing injured shipmates despite hazardous conditions following a 1905 boiler explosion aboard his ship, USS Bennington (PG-4).
He was stationed aboard the USS Bennington (PG-4) as a quartermaster third class when, on July 21, 1905, one of the USS Bennington's boilers exploded while it was in San Diego, California. For his actions received the Medal of Honor on January 5, 1906. [1] [2] He died September 9, 1965, at Retsil Veterans Home, Port Orchard.