Emil Fredericksen

Watertender · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy. (Biography not available.)

21 July 1905 · USS Benington

Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: Peacetime and other actions
Action: USS Benington

The citation

Official citation

Serving on board the U.S.S. Benington, for extraordinary heroism displayed at the time of the explosion of a boiler of that vessel at San Diego, Calif., 21 July 1905.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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