Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: attributed to Petty Officer 1st Class J. J. Deese, United States Navy

Navy Good Conduct Medal, with two bronze stars on ribbon; Victory Medal 1945; Korean Service Medal, bronze star on ribbon; U.N. Korea Medal; National Defense Medal, all unnamed, mounted as worn, back of mounting bar inscribed in ink, ‘J. J. Deese’; Vietnam Service Medal, unnamed, ribbons of the mounted group faded and a little ragged, very fine and better (6) £40-60

James Jackson Deese was born on 1 August 1927. Research indicates that he enlisted into the U.S. Navy in 1945/46 and was a veteran of the Second World War, Korea and Vietnam. He served aboard U.S.S. Gyatt, April 1958-April 1961 and U.S.S. Allen M. Sumner, 1963-64. Petty Officer 1st Class Deese died on 21 September 2007 and was buried in the Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida. With some copied research and copied photographs of the above destroyers.