[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, circa 1944-1945]

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Gold Star in lieue of a second Silver Star "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as Acting Commanding Officer of Fighting Squadron Nineteen, attached to the U.S.S. Lexington, in action against enemy Japanese forces on November 6, 1944." One typed page.

Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.