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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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