Volume 53
Private Law 76–310
Providing for consideration of a recommendation for decoration of Sergeant Fred W. Stockham, deceased.
Approved July 15, 1939
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Providing for consideration of a recommendation for decoration of Sergeant Fred W. Stockham, deceased.
Whereas on the nights of June 13–14, 1918, at Belleau Woods, Fred
Sgt. Fred W. Stockham (deceased).
Preamble.
W. Stockham, deceased, formerly a gunnery sergeant, United States Marine Corps, in action involving actual conflict with the enemy, distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty; and
Whereas a citation citing said Fred W. Stockham for the extraordinary heroism displayed by him at such time was written but, through accident, was not published and is not recorded in the War Department; and
Whereas no decoration has been awarded to said Fred W. Stockham for the extraordinary heroism displayed by him at such time: Therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any recommendation for decoration by the United States of America of Fred W. Stockham, deceased, formerly a gunnery sergeant, Ninety-sixth Company, Second Battalion, Sixth Division, United States Marine Corps, shall be considered and acted upon in the same manner as such recommendation would have been considered and acted upon if it had been pending on May 26, 1928.
Approved, July 15, 1939.