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1946 W. C Navy Vet Given Silver Star "For conspicuous gallantry and Intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving as a gun captain aboard a U S. aircraft carrier In western Pacific waters off Okinawa Jima," Floyd M. Brlngolf of Webster City has been awarded the silver star medal. Brlngolf, discharged from the navy after five years, has received the high award and accompanying citation from Vice Admiral Frederick C. Sherman, commander of the First carrier task force in which Bringolf was serving as a coxswain aboard the U.S.S. Hancock at the time the aircraft carrier was ...