SECOND NAVY CROSS
After Pearl Harbor, Dickinson moved back to the USS Enterprise. Just three days later, December 10, 1941, while searching for enemy submarines and ships, he sighted a submarine on the surface and dove through anti-aircraft fire and dropped a bomb. The submarine "went down in a manner that indicated it had been damaged, or possibly destroyed.. There was no evidence of a dive, such as propeller wake, while a large bubble of oil and air came to the surface."
THIRD NAVY CROSS
This one Dickinson received at the Battle of Midway June 4-6, 1942.
AIR MEDAL
He also received an Air Medal for his actions February 1, 1942 at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Quite the Air Hero. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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