USS Crater, Ships Navigators papers, photo's ephemra

[P-59A]

On the 1999 retroactivity of the Combat Action Ribbon for WW2 Navy and USMC non-aviation vets who were in combat, see the link below. I can barely make out the words "we regret...delay responding to your request." on your transmittal letter and CAR, so looks like he wrote and asked for it. A few years back, I was working on behalf of a WW2 Navy vet's daughters in an unsuccessful effort to prod the Navy to find a record of treatment for a severe shrapnel wound he received in a kamikaze attack on the first day of the Okinawa invasion for which he was awarded a bronze star as first lieutenant in fire suppression that saved his ship from blowing up and/or sinking. The Navy didn't look beyond his St. Louis file that we already had, with no record of treatment and so no PH. As "consolation awards" they sent the daughters a CAR and the Philippine PUC posthumously, since he had died in the mid 90s.

 

Cool paper, thanks for posting.

 

 

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-106publ65/html/PLAW-106publ65.htm

In his reunion folder he to someone explaining how someone in his group told him how to obtain this awaed.