Volume 52 · 324
Public Law 75–324
Authorizing the President to present the Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral Reginald Vesey Holt, British Navy, and to Captain George Eric Maxia O’Donnell, British Navy, and the Navy Cross to Vice Admiral Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe, British Navy, and to Lieutenant Commander Harry Douglas Barlow, British Navy.
Approved June 7, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
Authorizing the President to present the Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral Reginald Vesey Holt, British Navy, and to Captain George Eric Maxia O’Donnell, British Navy, and the Navy Cross to Vice Admiral Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe, British Navy, and to Lieutenant Commander Harry Douglas Barlow, British Navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President
U. S. S. Panay.
Presentation of medals, etc., authorized to designated British naval officers for assistance in recovery of survivors of.
is authorized to present the Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral Reginald Vesey Holt, British Navy, and to Captain George Eric Maxia O’Donnell, British Navy, in recognition of their initiative and courageous action in proceeding immediately with unselfish disregard of their own safety to render assistance in recovering the survivors of the United States ship Panay in the face of threatened force and armed opposition; and the Navy Cross to Vice Admiral Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe, British Navy, and to Lieutenant Commander Harry Douglas Barlow, British Navy, for their voluntary and unstinted cooperation in assisting with the recovery of the survivors of the United States ship Panay.
Approved, June 7, 1938.