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Medal of Honor Recipient

Otto Diller Schmidt

U.S. Navy · Interim 1899 - 1910

MOH-RC-002651Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: early Navy star design and striped ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1906

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Medal of Honor

July 21, 1905

San Diego harbor on board U.S.S. Bennington, California, USA

Rank at action
Seaman
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1899 - 1910
Unit or command
U.S.S. Bennington
Presentation date
January 5, 1906

The Citation

Sources ↓
While serving on board the U.S.S. Bennington for extraordinary heroism displayed at the time of the explosion of a boiler of that vessel at San Diego, Calif., 21 July 1905.

Sources & record notes

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

  1. Otto Diller Schmidt — 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-002663
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-31
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
13
Accredited to
Nebraska
Archive transcription SHA-256
e6bff65b579e1f9e13b788f1f69b2af9dcdd521bd74f4a7a211a685abf101b64

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 USS Bennington and the July 21, 1905 boiler-explosion action at San Diego harbor. 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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