Edwin S. Pou

The Navy Cross is awarded to Ensign Edwin S. Pou, U.S. Navy (Reserve Forces), for distinguished and heroic service as a seaplane pilot on September 17 and October 26, 1918, in bombing operations against enemy submarines, on one of which occasions the submarine attacked was officially reported as haying been destroyed. Later Ensign Pou lost his life in a seaplane accident.