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Rank/Rate Gunner's Mate, Third Class Service Number 234 18 97 Birth Date February 11, 1919 From Rochester, New York Decorations Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart Ship USS Canopus (AS-9) Date of Death February 8, 1942 Location Mariveles Bay, Philippine Islands Circumstances Killed at his machine gun by Japanese aircraft Remarks Charles was born in Edmond, Oklahoma. Some sources list him
as a Gunner's Mate, Second Class.Distinguished Service Cross Citation:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by
Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the
Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Gunner's Mate
Third Class Charles Herman Kramb, Jr. (NSN: 2341897), United
States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military
operations against an armed enemy in the vicinity of Quinauan Point,
Bataan, Philippine Islands, on 8 February 1942. When it became
necessary to coordinate an attack from seaward with the operations
of ground forces in breaking the resistance of a defiladed and
strongly held enemy position, Gunner's Mate Kramb served as a
gunner on one of the armored boats of the expedition. During the
entire operation this intrepid blue jacket maintained accurate and
voluminous fire from his exposed post in the bow of his boat despite
heavy enemy fire from the beach and several hostile dive bombing
attacks. On the return trip, after completion of the mission, Gunner's
Mate Kramb took a machine gun position in an open part of the
boat where he ignored considerations of personal safety in firing at
dive bombers as they came in to attack, thereby driving off two
such attacks. On a third dive bombing attempt, however, three
bombs fell alongside his boat causing his death, but not before he
had contributed in a large measure to the success of the enterprise.Information courtesy of David Wright.
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