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Henry Breault, a submariner, received the Medal of Honor. He is the only enlisted submariner to have ever received the medal.
The MoH was not yet strictly a wartime award at the time and Breault won it for peace time service, with his citation stating:
For heroism and devotion to duty while serving on board the U.S. submarine O-5 at the time of the sinking of that vessel. On the morning of 28 October 1923, the O-5 collided with the steamship Abangarez and sank in less than a minute. When the collision occurred, Breault was in the torpedo room. Upon reaching the hatch, he saw that the boat was rapidly sinking. Instead of jumping overboard to save his own life, he returned to the torpedo room to the rescue of a shipmate whom he knew was trapped in the boat, closing the torpedo room hatch on himself. Breault and Brown remained trapped in this compartment until rescued by the salvage party 31 hours later.
Breault was from Connecticut, but had served in the Royal Navy in World War One, joining at age 16. He served the rest of his life in the Navy, dying of a heart condition at age 41 in 1941.
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