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Medal of Honor Recipient

Jesse Whitfield Covington

U.S. Navy · World War I

MOH-RC-003325Source-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 HonorRecorded presentation: 1918

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Representative form selected from the recorded presentation year (1918), not authenticated medal-object provenance. The Navy used more than one design in this period. No Tiffany Cross attribution is inferred from service or conflict alone.

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Medal of Honor

April 17, 1918

Quiberon Bay, France

Rank at action
Ship's Cook Third Class
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
World War I
Unit or command
U.S.S. Stewart
Presentation date
December 31, 1918

The Citation

Sources ↓
For extraordinary heroism following internal explosion of the Florence H. The sea in the vicinity of wreckage was covered by a mass of boxes of smokeless powder, which were repeatedly exploding. Jesse W. Covington, of the U.S.S. Stewart, plunged overboard to rescue a survivor who was surrounded by powder boxes and too exhausted to help himself, fully realizing that similar powder boxes in the vicinity were continually exploding and that he was thereby risking his life in saving the life of this man.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Jesse Whitfield Covington — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-02

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-003340
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-09-02
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
403
Entered service at
California
Archive transcription SHA-256
e6fcbaecc86117cf03b24f74bc24ead7514b01c1d2ccf614e1c9e1ed2ace2e7e

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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