Harry Heyman

The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Harry Heyman, Coxswain, U.S. Navy, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as Commander of the No. 1 gun on board a United States warship. While under attack by enemy Japanese forces, Coxswain Heyman fired his gun promptly and accurately, thereby contributing materially to the success of the mission to which his ship was assigned.

Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 309 (December 1942)