U.S. Navy
Patrick Francis Bresnahan
ConflictNoncombat
Year of Action1905
Unit/CommandUSS Iowa (BB-4)
BirthplacePeabody, Massachusetts
Citation
Serving on board the USS Iowa for extraordinary heroism at the time of the blowing out of the manhole plate of boiler D on board that vessel, 25 January 1905.
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