Mississippi Coast Guardsman Commended For Heroic Sea Rescue. Coast Guardsman Farrol D. Holloman, coxswain, of McComb, Miss., is congratulated for winning the Commendation Ribbon by Coast Guard Captain Frank A. Leamy, the skipper, at a muster of the ship's company aboard a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport somewhere in European war waters. The Commendation, signed by Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, cited Holloman for "outstanding courage while attached to a transport in rescuing a man from drowning in St. Georges Channel." The citation read further that Holloman "dived overboard and ,
Mississippi Coast Guardsman Commended For Heroic Sea Rescue. Coast Guardsman Farrol D. Holloman, coxswain, of McComb, Miss., is congratulated for winning the Commendation Ribbon by Coast Guard Captain Frank A. Leamy, the skipper, at a muster of the ship's company aboard a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport somewhere in European war waters. The Commendation, signed by Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, cited Holloman for "outstanding courage while attached to a transport in rescuing a man from drowning in St. Georges Channel." The citation read further that Holloman "dived overboard and , despite extremely difficult conditions, assisted in securing a line to the victim and hauling him safe into the boat." Captain Leamy's home is in Alexandria, Va.
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