Third Navy Cross
Puller’s Guadalcanal episode went on to earn him his third Navy Cross when the year ended. His heroic deeds were worthy of a Hollywood movie. Tropical rainfall heavily poured from the South Pacific skies and Puller’s troops with another infantry unit were heavily firing at each other. Puller and his men were giving their all, protecting an air base the US had taken from the Japanese at the beginning of the year. So how did this play out?