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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: July 12, 2000
Caption: Lt. Orlando H. Petty-Medal of Honor Recipient-Bois de Belleau
Additional Description: He is buried in St. Timothy Churchyard, Roxborough PA. His Medal of Honor information and citation is: PETTY, ORLANDO HENDERSON • Rank and organization: Lieutenant (Medical Corps), USNRF • Appointed from: Pennsylvania Citation: For extraordinary heroism while serving with the 5th Regiment, U.S. Marines, in France during the attack in the Boise de Belleau, 11 June 1918. While under heavy fire of high explosive and gas shells in the town of Lucy, where his dressing station was located, Lt. Petty attended to and evacuated the wounded under most trying conditions. Having been knocked to the ground by an exploding gas shell which tore his mask, Lt. Petty discarded the mask and courageously continued his work. His dressing station being hit and demolished, he personally helped carry Capt. Williams, wounded, through the shellfire to a place of safety.
Submitted: January 11, 2016, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p343832
File Size: 0.045 Megabytes

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