Medal of Honor
1941-12-07
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, USA
- Rank at action
- Radio Electrician (Warrant Officer 1)
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- World War II
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. California
The Citation
Sources ↓For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor, by Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. After the mechanized ammunition hoists were put out of action in the U.S.S. California, Reeves, on his own initiative, in a burning passageway, assisted in the maintenance of an ammunition supply by hand to the antiaircraft guns until he was overcome by smoke and fire, which resulted in his death.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Thomas James Reeves — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-01
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-002997
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-09-01
- Accredited to
- Connecticut
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 18d0808cf05fbae769643ca2c724482639138d778ad524395cc723cd51ae8c5e
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.