Earl S. Piper
Born: at New London, Mississippi
Home Town: New London, Mississippi
Authority - USMC Communiqué: 04260-1-3 1740 ACE-rls (December 7, 1929)
The Navy Cross is presented to Earl S. Piper, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as acting commander of a patrol of the Second Brigade, U.S. Marine Corps, during an engagement with bandits at Pena Blanca, Nicaragua on May 13, 1928. During an attack by bandits, and after the commanding officer, the late Captain Robert S. Hunter, U.S. Marine Corps, had been mortally wounded, Second Lieutenant Piper assumed the command of the force and by his display of bravery, coolness and leadership so conducted the engagement that the attacks of the numerically superior and well armed bandit force were repulsed. The bandits finally were dispersed and driven off.
