Jersey City Coast Guardsman Wins Coveted Navy Cross. Fellow New Jersey Coast Guard shipmates in the North African invasion admire the Navy Cross awarded P. L. Clark, fireman 1/c, for "extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations." Clark, while engineer of a landing boat swept by enemy fire, took the boat with wounded men from the beach to a destroyer and then returned to the beach to participate in further action. The three Coast Guardsmen are: D. J. Duff, fireman 1/c, 34 Belmont Ave., Jersey City; Ensign J. A. Clark, Jr., 39 - 74th St., North Bergen, and Clark, 45 Stillman Ave
Jersey City Coast Guardsman Wins Coveted Navy Cross. Fellow New Jersey Coast Guard shipmates in the North African invasion admire the Navy Cross awarded P. L. Clark, fireman 1/c, for "extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations." Clark, while engineer of a landing boat swept by enemy fire, took the boat with wounded men from the beach to a destroyer and then returned to the beach to participate in further action. The three Coast Guardsmen are: D. J. Duff, fireman 1/c, 34 Belmont Ave., Jersey City; Ensign J. A. Clark, Jr., 39 - 74th St., North Bergen, and Clark, 45 Stillman Ave., Jersey City.
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