Otto Diller Schmidt
Medal of Honor
U.S. Navy
Peacetime Awards
War Department, General Orders No. 13, January 5, 1906
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Seaman Otto Diller Schmidt, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism on board the U.S.S. BENNINGTON, displayed at the time of the explosion of a boiler of that vessel at San Diego, California, 21 July 1905.
