14 November 2010

Medal of Honor: J. F. O'Conner and W. Sweeney

JAMES FRANCIS O'CONNER

Landsman, Engineer's Force, US Navy; USS Jean Sands

Born: 28 November 1861, Portsmouth, Virginia
Died: 17 September 1940

Citation: For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Jean Sands, opposite the Norfolk Navy Yard, on the night of 15 June 1880, and rescuing from drowning a young girl who had fallen overboard.










WILLIAM SWEENEY

Landsman, Engineer's Force, US Navy; USS Jean Sands

Born: 1856, Boston, Massachusetts
Died: Unknown

Citation: For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Jean Sands, opposite the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., on the night of 15 June 1880, and rescuing from drowning a young girl who had fallen overboard.

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