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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

"For heroism and extraordinary achievement in aerial Eight as Pilot of a Plane in Marine Fighter Squadron THREE HUNDRED ELEVEN during operations against enemy aggressor forces in Korea en 13 February 1952. Participating in a close air support flight in the vicinity of Tosan, First Lieutenant Scribner carried out a series of devastanngbenbing and strafing attacks in the face of intense automatic-vveapons fire against a concentration of enemy trucks and troops shielded by revetments and surrounded by automatic-weapons positions, personally scoring three direct hits and contributing materially to the damage or destruction of twenty hostile trucks. Diving repeatedly through the enemy fire, he persisted in his attacks until all ordnance was expended and neutralisation of the staging area was assured. 3y his marked courage, skilled airmanship and devotion to duty, First Lieutenant Scribner was greatly instrumental in dealing a damaging blow to the enemy and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. "