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[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 19, 1946] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 19, 1946. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Distinguished Flying Cross. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

[Navy Cross certificate issued by U.S. Navy to Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1940s] (Item)

Navy Cross certificate issued by the U.S. Navy to Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1940s.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 6, 1946] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 6, 1946. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Navy Cross. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Bureau of Naval Personnel, November 13, 1946] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, November 13, 1946. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Silver Star. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Bureau of Naval Personnel, May 1, 1947] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, May 1, 1947. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Gold Star. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

[Certificate of Satisfactory Service issued by U.S. Navy to Lieutenant Commander Elvin L. Lindsay, January 15, 1946] (Item)

Certificate of Satisfactory Service issued by the U.S. Navy to Lieutenant Commander Elvin L. Lindsay, January 15, 1946. Signed by James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy. Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

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

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism as Flight Leader in Fighting Squadron Ninteen, attached to the U.S.S. Lexington, in action against enemy Japanese forces during the Battle for Leyte Gulf, October 25, 1944." One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S.…

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy, circa 1944-1945] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Distinguished Flying Cross "for distinguishing himself by meritorious achievement while participating in an aerial flight as pilot of a carrier based fighter aircraft assigned to a strike against enemy installations on an island of the Bonin Group on 5 August 1944." One typed…

[Memorandum to Commanding Officer, Fighting Squadron 19 (VF-19), from Navy Department Board of Decorations and Medals, December 7, 1944] (Item)

Memorandum to the Commanding Officer, Fighting Squadron 19 (VF-19), from Captain H. G. Patrick, Navy Department Board of Decorations and Medals, December 7, 1944. Recommends that an entry for Lieutenant Elvin L. Lindsay's actions in searching for and locating a crashed Grumman TBF-1C aircraft be added to his Fitness Report. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S.…

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from John L. Sullivan, Acting Secretary of the Navy, circa 1945-1947] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from John L. Sullivan, Acting Secretary of the Navy, circa 1945-1947. Presents Lindsay with the Silver Star "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as Pilot of a Fighter Aircraft in Fighting Squadron Nineteen, attached to the U.S.S. Lexington, during action against the enemy Japanese forces in the Philippine Islands Area, from October 21 to 24, 1944." One typed…