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Medal of Honor Recipient

George Frederick Phillips

U.S. Navy · Spanish-American War

MOH-RC-002602Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1898

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Medal of Honor

June 3, 1898

Santiago de Cuba harbor entrance, Cuba

Rank at action
Machinist First Class
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Spanish-American War
Unit or command
U.S.S. Merrimac

The Citation

Sources ↓
In connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. Merrimac at the entrance to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba 2 June 1898. Despite heavy fire from the Spanish shore batteries, Phillips displayed extraordinary heroism throughout this operation.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. George Frederick Phillips — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-31

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002614
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
529
Later or highest recorded rank
Chief Machinist
Accredited to
New York
Archive transcription SHA-256
686dd45e4b8721166dc3c294cce95e867ca3051ed94fcfeb3e262e2ac188062f

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

Current reference profile expands the inherited name and confirms Machinist First Class as the action rank, Chief Machinist as the later or highest rank, and the June 3, 1898 USS Merrimac operation. Recovery provenance: the prior live-verification result is reconstructed because the described P10-C060–P10-C062 restart files were not physically available; the verified P10-C059 authority, retained web-reference metadata, legacy record, and prior session evidence are all preserved.

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