John Walter Mcclaren
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The Navy Cross is awarded to Lieutenant Commander John Walter McClaren, U.S. Navy, for extraordinary heroism in entering the after magazine of the U.S.S. Cassin to determine conditions there, when smoke was found to be pouring out of the handling room, after the explosion on the Cassin, following the torpedoing of that ship, on October 15, 1917.