Millard County Chronicle | 1945-03-29 | Page 6 | O'Hara, Distinguished Service Medal Hero |

Type	issue
Date	1945-03-29
Paper	Millard County Chronicle
Language	eng
City	Delta
County	Millard
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Article Title	O'Hara, Distinguished Service Medal Hero
Type	article
Date	1945-03-29
Paper	Millard County Chronicle
Language	eng
City	Delta
County	Millard
Page	6
OCR Text	Show O'Hara, Distinguished Service Medal Hero No name is regarded with more respect in the U. S. merchant marine ma-rine cadet corps than that of Edwin J. O'Hara of Lindsay, Calif., who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Dis-tinguished Service medal. One morning late in the full of 1942, just at dawn, two enemy surface raiders appeared through the mist and started firing on O'Hara's ship. The gun crew immediately im-mediately responded. The enemy fire was elective, however, and all the personnel manning one after gun installation were kiil?d or wounded by one explosion. O'Hara took over this gun by himself, and;'managed to fire it five times, with every shell striKing the enemy vessel at the water line. O'Hara was credited in the D.S.M. citation with single-handedly sinking this raider. The cadet-midshipman was mortally mor-tally wounded in the action", however, how-ever, and went down with his ship.
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