Talk:John William Finn

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Ian Rose in topic Flag
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Finn was Honored at Pearl Harbor

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Navy News story if anyone wants to add it in. Medal of Honor Recipient Lt John Finn Visits Namesake Arizona White Boat --Brad (talk) 05:09, 10 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Medals

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The awards are incomplete. As he served on active duty until 1956 he is entitled to the National Defense Service Medal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.91.139.108 (talk) 15:10, 2 May 2015 (UTC) He would almost certainly be entitled to award of the Combat Action Ribbon as well, given that the award was made retroactive to December 7, 1941 specifically to include Pearl Harbor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:AB90:1B79:3D3F:C2CF:6B6F:287C (talk) 16:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Flag

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@LtNOWIS: Sir, why the change to the pre-1959 flag? I understand that Lieutenant Finn left the Navy in '56, however that doesn't mean that his allegiance ended when he retired.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 05:30, 6 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

It's fine, just curious. Thanks for the response!--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 13:09, 6 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
Butting in, it's partly for this reason that I always follow the "avoid flag icons in infoboxes" guideline at MOSFLAG. When there's no flag at all, you can't have arguments about which flag to use... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:21, 6 May 2015 (UTC)Reply