Earlier in January, the Navy and the Connecticut Air National Guard honored Dan Crowley, a World War 2 U.S. Army Air Corps veteran who fought in the Pacific theater and suffered as a Japanese prisoner of war. Crowley was awarded an honorary Combat Infantryman Badge and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant for his […]
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Lt. Thomas Conway, chaplain who fought off sharks, receives Navy Cross
FeaturedLieutenant Thomas Conway, a Navy chaplain, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the last days of World War 2. On July 30, 1945, Lt. Conway was a Catholic priest assigned to the USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser, that was sailing from Guam to Okinawa […]
