Lieutenant Commander John McCloy, 1900-

As an enlisted man was awarded the Medal of Honor twice for action.  First as a Coxswain aboard Newark he lead a landing party that took ammunition ashore to assist the relief expedition of the Allied forces in China in June 1900 and including attacks at PehTsang.  The second as Chief Boatswain at Vera Cruz on 22 April 1914 when he was wounded while leading three picket launches along the Vera Cruz sea front to draw Mexican fire to enable Navy cruisers to fire to save men ashore.

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