Meyer Stengle

The Navy Cross is presented to Meyer Stengle, Private, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism in battle when on the occasion of an engagement with armed bandits in the vicinity of Ililihuas, Nicaragua, 7 August 1928, he, well knowing the extreme danger involved, voluntarily acted as a connecting unit between two separate Marine patrols at the time under extremely heavy enemy fire and as a result received wounds which later resulted in his death.