WWII
WWII
Calvin Murray Dixon
Rate / Rank
Coxswain
Birthdate
August 26 1924
Date of Death
October 8 1991
Branch
US Navy
Active Duty Service
March 6 1943 - November 11 1945
Conflicts & Campaigns
- Atlantic; Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944; Invasion of Southern France, August 15, 1944
- Green Beach east of St. Raphael, France; Pacific; Invasion of Okinawa, May - June 1945
Significant Duty Stations
- US Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland; Amphibious Training Base, Little Creek, Virginia
- Amphibious Training Base, Fort Pierce, Florida; USNAATSB Fowey; USS Cornwall (LST-284)
Decorations & Citations
- European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with one battle star; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two battle stars; Navy Occupation Medal (Okinawa); World War II Victory Medal
Notes
US Navy service number 832-27-13. Found his brother, Robert, while walking in Naples, Italy, August 1944. Brother of Private Forcie Wayne Dixon US Army, Ships Cook Second Class Robert Lee Dixon US Navy, Airman Hugh Rudolph Dixon US Navy and Seaman First Class William Carroll Dixon US Navy. Burial; Greenwood Cemetery, Cairo, Georgia.