Medal of Honor
July 21, 1905
San Diego Harbor aboard U.S.S. Bennington, California, USA
- Rank at action
- Boatswain's Mate
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- Interim 1899 - 1910
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Bennington
- Presentation date
- January 5, 1906
The Citation
Sources ↓Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- William S. (Willie) Cronan — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-30
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-002284
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-30
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 13
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Lieutenant Commander
- Accredited to
- Illinois
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 9b4e5353f1d3b0f15ab129e5fb9d7e76ec332673659061dd5367ef1748b87f7b
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The canonical reference profile was recovered through a controlled archival reference search outside the inherited candidate set and then confirmed by substantive comparison of identity, service, rank, unit or command, action context, and citation; successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The current authoritative source expands or normalizes the inherited name from Willie Cronan to William S. (Willie) Cronan; both renderings remain preserved. The exact current profile heading is William S (Willie) Cronan; the controlled display name is William S. (Willie) Cronan, and both forms remain preserved. Documented aliases remain attached to this stable recipient identity: Willie Cronan. No identity merge or split was performed. The action rank Boatswain's Mate remains distinct from the later or highest rank Lieutenant Commander. The controlled canonical unit or command is U.S.S. Bennington; the current structured profile renders U.S.S. Bennington, and the inherited wording Not documented remains preserved as a separately attributed variant. The current authoritative evidence controls the action date as 1905-07-21 and classifies the action under Interim 1899 - 1910; the inherited unnormalized date and conflict values remain preserved in the audit record. The controlled historical action place is San Diego Harbor aboard U.S.S. Bennington, California, USA; the current structured place San Diego Harbor aboard U.S.S. Bennington, California, USA and the complete inherited geocoder value San Diego, CA, USA remain preserved in the audit evidence. The inherited full citation remains canonical and checksum-protected; current rendered wording is preserved separately where transcribed. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.