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Peacetime and interim
John Russell
Seaman · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
21 September 1880 · Genoa, Italy
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Peacetime and other actions
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- Genoa, Italy
The citation
Official citation
For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Trenton, at Genoa, Italy, 21 September 1880, and rescuing from drowning Hans Paulsen, ordinary seaman.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.