Herbert L. Shinn

The Navy Cross is presented to Herbert L. Shinn, Lieutenant (MC), U.S. Navy, for extraordinary heroism while on duty as medical officer of the Fourth Provincial Regiment of U.S. Marines, operating in Santo Domingo, where upon several occasions he performed the duties of a line officer on reconnaissance duty, and upon one occasions, August 15, 1918, took military command of a detachment which had lost its leader and led this detachment under fire to one of the finest achievements of the campaign.