Osmond K. Ingram

Gunner's Mate First Class · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

15 October 1917 · Place not recorded

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Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: World War I
Home state: Alabama
Action: Osmond K. Ingram, 15 October 1917

The citation

Official citation

For extraordinary heroism in the presence of the enemy on the occasion of the torpedoing of the Cassin, on 15 October 1917. While the Cassin was searching for the submarine, Ingram sighted the torpedo coming, and realizing that it might strike the ship aft in the vicinity of the depth charges, ran aft with the intention of releasing the depth charges before the torpedo could reach the Cassin. The torpedo struck the ship before he could accomplish his purpose and Ingram was killed by the explosion. The depth charges exploded immediately afterward. His life was sacrificed in an attempt to save the ship and his shipmates, as the damage to the ship would have been much less if he had been able to release the depth charges.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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