Kozub, Paul (sr.)

Date of birth:: October 22nd, 1923 (Perth Amboy, United States)
Date of death:: November 17th, 2012
Nationality:: American

Biography

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Navy and Marine Corps Medal (NMCM)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Motor Machinist's Mate First Class
Awarded on:: February 1945
Awarded for:: Operation Neptune

"For heroic conduct as a member of a naval beach party on the Normandy Coast, 6 June 1944. Motor Machinist's Mate First Class Kozub noticed two wounded men on a landing craft foundered about 150 yards offshore. With one end of a line placed about his waist and an assistant holding the other, Motor Machinist's Mate First Class Kozub, despite machine gun and sniper fire that whipped up the water all around him and his assistant, reached the craft, found one man beyond aid but tied the line about the other and supported him to shore."

Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 335