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Medal of Honor Recipient

Edwin Joseph Hill

U.S. Navy · World War II

MOH-RC-002893Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: Navy star design with the 1913 blue ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1941

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Medal of Honor

1941-12-07

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, USA

Rank at action
Chief Boatswain
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
World War II
Unit or command
U.S.S. Nevada

The Citation

Sources ↓
For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, extraordinary courage, and disregard of his own safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, by Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. During the height of the strafing and bombing, Chief Boatswain Hill led his men of the linehandling details of the U.S.S. Nevada to the quays, cast off the lines and swam back to his ship. Later, while on the forecastle, attempting to let go the anchors, he was blown overboard and killed by the explosion of several bombs.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Edwin Joseph Hill — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-01

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002907
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-09-01
Accredited to
Pennsylvania
Archive transcription SHA-256
55a9360c147180fc6799208f391f8744ed97ab9d9e7868594f62bd91eba52939

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile comparison is documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

Current official reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; exact legacy citation text and checksum are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.

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