Eugene F. Duboise
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The Navy Cross is awarded to Lieutenant Commander Eugene F. DuBoise, U.S. Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession while attached to the U. S. Submarine N-5 upon the occasion of a collision between that vessel and the Charles Whittemore voluntarily entered flooded battery compartment of the N-5, notwithstanding the danger that the compartment might be filled with chlorine gas if the water reached the battery cells, and remained there, bailing until the danger was passed.