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Understanding the Navy Cross: A Quiz on Military Honors

This quiz explores the Navy Cross, a prestigious military honor, covering its status, categories, notable recipients, and other relevant details.

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1 What is Navy Cross's current status?

2 What type of thing is the Navy Cross?

3 Which of the following is a category that the Navy Cross falls under?

4 ________, United Kingdom (1917).

5 ________ (four awards)

6 Israel Fisanovich, Soviet Union (1944), ________ submarine commander [6]

7 ________ (two awards)

8 It is normally only awarded to members of the ________, Marine Corps and Coast Guard but could be awarded to all branches of the United States military as well as members of foreign militaries.

9 The ribbon is navy blue with a center stripe of ________.

10 ________, first Royal Navy officer to receive both the American Navy Cross and the British Victoria Cross.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • William K. Jones, awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star for valor at Tarawa and Saipan, was the youngest commander of a U.S. Marine Corps battalion during World War II.
  • LtCol. John F. Bolt, Korean War Navy Cross recipient, remains the only U.S. Marine Corps jet aircraft flying ace.
  • before becoming the Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy, Thomas Leigh Gatch was awarded two Navy Crosses.
  • in October 1965, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps LtGen Richard C. Mangrum, Navy Cross recipient at Guadalcanal, became the first Marine to be the "Gray Eagle" of Naval aviation.
  • William A. Eddy, president of Hobart College and William Smith College (1936–42), was a recipient of the Navy Cross in World War I and instrumental in the creation of the CIA in the late 1940s.
  • Walter Stauffer McIlhenny, president of McIlhenny Company (1949-1985), maker of Tabasco sauce, was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
  • George R. Christmas (pictured), then known as Captain Christmas, received the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" in the Vietnam War.
  • Harry Brinkley Bass was awarded two U.S. Navy Crosses within a period of two months for combat actions in World War II and was killed in action two years later.
  • Joseph Wallace Oman, a future Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, was awarded a Navy Cross during World War I for commanding the seized German SS Vaterland (renamed the USS Leviathan), and delivering almost 120,000 troops to the war effort in Europe.
  • United States Marine Sergeant Aubrey McDade (pictured) was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Iraq in 2004.
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