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Peacetime and interim
William Sidney Shacklette
Hospital Steward · U.S. Navy
U.S. Navy
21 July 1905 · USS Bennington
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Era
- Peacetime and other actions
- Home state
- Virginia
- Action
- USS Bennington
The citation
Official citation
For extraordinary heroism while serving on the U.S.S. Bennington at the time of the explosion of a boiler of that vessel at San Diego, Calif., 21 July 1905.