- SURNAME
Scavera
- FORENAME
James
- UNIT
4th Raider Battalion (Company P)
- RANK
Corporal
- NUMBER
330096
- AWARD
Silver Star
- PLACE
Bairoko Harbour, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 20th July 1943
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
resided Spring Valley, New York
born 05.07.1919, Rock County, Minnesota, USA
01.07.1941 draft card Suffern, New York
wife Ruth Scavera (1922-2007)
died 14.03.2017 (Aged 97)
Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery, Spring Lake, North Carolina, USA. Plot 8A 593
CITATION:
Silver Star : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) to Corporal James Scavera (MCSN: 330096), United States Marine Corps, for gallantry in action at New Georgia, Solomon Islands. Although painfully injured by enemy mortar fire, he manned his machine gun alone and effected the destruction of two enemy gun emplacements, enabling all of the wounded in his area to be safely evacuated on 20 July 1943.
