Navy Cross Recipients
The Navy Cross is the highest medal that can be awarded by the Department of the Navy and the second highest award given for valor. The following names are of the men who were recipients of the Navy Cross while serving in 1/9.
- LCpl Jordan Haerter (posthumous)
- SSgt Leon R. Burns
- 2ndLt William J. Christman III
- 1stLt Gatlin J. Howell (posthumous)
- Capt William M. Keys
- Capt Albert C. Slater
- LCpl Dana C. Darnell
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