In replly address not the signer of this letter, but Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Department, Washing, D.C.
Refer to No.
Pers-68-CDK
MM/382 09 32
NAVY DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNELWASHINGTON 25, D.C.
27 JUN 1946
Mr. Carl Otto Anshelm Schonborg
4780 Sepulveda Blvd.
Culver City, California
Dear Mr. Schonborg:
The Bureau has the honor to inform you of the Award of the Purple Heart and certificate to your late son, Harold Carl Schonborg,
Radioman Third Class, United States Navy, in accordance with General Order 186 of January 21, 1943 which reads in part as follows:
"The Secretary of the Navy is further authorized and directed to award the Purple Heart posthumously, in the name of the President of the United States, to any persons who, while serving in any capacity with the Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard of the United States, since December 6, 1941, are killed in action or who die as a direct result of wounds received in action with an enemy of the United States, or as a result of an act of such enemy."
The medal is being forwarded undeer separate cover. Please acknowledge receipt on the enclosed form.
By direction of Chief of Naval Personnel.
Sincerely yours,
Joe H. Floyd [signature]
JOE H. FLOYD
Lt.Cmdf, USNR
Officer in Charge
Medals and Awards Section
Enlisted Perforance Division
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