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Medal of Honor Recipient

Mervyn Sharp Bennion

U.S. Navy · World War II

MOH-RC-000031Source-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

December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory

Rank at action
Captain
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
World War II
Unit or command
USS West Virginia

The Citation

Sources ↓
For conspicuous devotion to duty, extraordinary courage, and complete disregard of his own life, above and beyond the call of duty, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, by Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. As Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. West Virginia, after being mortally wounded, Capt. Bennion evidenced apparent concern only in fighting and saving his ship, and strongly protested against being carried from the bridge.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Mervyn Sharp Bennion — current recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-21

    current identity, service, unit, action metadata, award status, and recipient-profile match

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-000034
Transcription status
Legacy full text · source matched
Last source check
2026-08-21
Archive transcription SHA-256
cc2d8b04b698c6067b899fa94dfdea45e95e3a3f0e7b802e963d5677bb469b8c

Legacy transcription retained; line wrapping and repeated whitespace normalized.

Current reference profile used to reconcile identity, service, unit, action date, action place, posthumous status, and presentation metadata. Complete legacy citation retained pending signed General Order comparison.

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