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Turvelin, Alexander Haure
Turvelin, Alexander Haure
Unit/CommandUSS Trenton
Citation

For jumping overboard from the USS Trenton, at Toulon, France, February 1881, and rescuing from drowning Augustus Ohlensen, coxswain.

Branch: U.S. Navy

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