Willis A. Lee Receives the Navy Cross

ID: 3439 ~ Source: Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: US Navy ~ Date: Circa January 1943
This file appears in: Vice Admiral Willis A. "Mose" Lee Jr.
Willis A. Lee Receives the Navy Cross
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Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee is presented with the Navy Cross by Admiral William Halsey in a ceremony in the South Pacific for his actions in the Battle of Guadacanal.

This file appears in: Vice Admiral Willis A. "Mose" Lee Jr.

By Andrew Patrick
Historical marker #2521 commemorates the life of Willis A. "Mose" Lee Jr. Lee was an Owen County native whose accomplishments had largely faded from public memory until a group of middle schoolers restored the Vice Admiral to a prominent place in…