Medal of Honor
1941-12-07
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, USA
- Rank at action
- Machinist's Mate First Class
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- World War II
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. California
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. The compartment, in the U.S.S. California, in which the air compressor, to which Scott was assigned as his battle station, was flooded as the result of a torpedo hit. The remainder of the personnel evacuated that compartment but Scott refused to leave, saying words to the effect "This is my station and I will stay and give them air as long as the guns are going.''
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Robert Raymond Scott — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-01
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Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-003023
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-09-01
- Accredited to
- Ohio
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- ff0553d4b969a4dc027972cf476d8b4ae00bf4f505cab5ffd24fcb1d0c74729e
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile comparison is documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current official profile expands the middle name; the legacy initialed form remains an alias.