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Heroic Score1001058th out of 4481
Number of Medals9
Total Heroic & Non-Heroic Score116679 of 4481
U.S. Navy#80of 704
Surface warfare#33of 182
World War I#385of 928
World War II#486of 924
Attack on Pearl Harbor †#1of 8
Mervyn S. Bennion
Captain, U.S. Navy
World War IWorld War IIAttack on Pearl Harbor †
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Biography
Mervyn Sharp Bennion was a United States Navy captain who served during World War I and was killed while he was in command of battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous devotion to duty, extraordinary courage, and complete disregard of his own life."
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Medal of Honor(base 100)
+100Heroic Score100 pts