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American (1776 - present, Republic)

Cmdr. Charles W. Brewer, USN, Tulsa, OK. (missing in action): As commander of a carrier-based fighter squadron in the vicinity of the Marianas on 19 June 1944, he led component parts of his squadron to intercept Jap planes attempting to reach our fleet and personally accounted for three of the 60 Jap planes destroyed. Later he led the six planes remaining aboard his carrier to Guam and, in the face of overwhelming odds, shot down two enemy planes and contributed to the destruction or rout of the remainder

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• Photo: US Navy Decorations and Citations - January 1945 | GG Archives
  
• - Recipients of The Navy Cross, 1916 - Present, by C. Douglas Sterner