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Medal of Honor Recipient

James Francis O'Conner

U.S. Navy · Interim 1871 - 1899

MOH-RC-002574Source-based record

The award

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Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1880

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Medal of Honor

June 15, 1880

opposite the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Rank at action
Landsman Engineer's Force
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1871 - 1899
Unit or command
U.S.S. Jean Sands

The Citation

Sources ↓
For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Jean Sands, opposite the Norfolk Navy Yard, on the night of 15 June 1880, and rescuing from drowning a young girl who had fallen overboard.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. James Francis O'Conner — 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-002586
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
326
Accredited to
Virginia
Archive transcription SHA-256
71dc293f23e958901f6f0657fb208b9ce34c7785b614fc5571686a357efdbd47

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, preserves the O'Connor spelling variant, and confirms USS Jean Sands and the June 15, 1880 Norfolk lifesaving action. 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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