U.S. Navy
Alexander Haure Turvelin
ConflictNoncombat
Unit/CommandUSS Trenton
Citation
For jumping overboard from the USS Trenton, at Toulon, France, February 1881, and rescuing from drowning Augustus Ohlensen, coxswain.
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