STRICKLAND TEWELOW
GETS BRONZE STAR
August 30, 1947
Rehoboth resident, Strickland Bernard Tewelow , received the
Bronze Star and Combat
Medal for heroic service aboard his ship, the destroyer
U.S.S. Haynesworth, when
Jap suicide bombers attacked.
Lt. Cmdr. Leon Thompason,
U.S.N., representing the Secretary of the Navy, made
the presentation on the
beach in front of the Henlopen Hotel which was well attended by
Rehoboth district Navy men,
residents and summer visitors.
Strick, as he is better
known, was a graduate of Rehoboth High School , is son of Mrs.
Bess Tewelow of Rehoboth
Beach. He served in WWII in the Pacific as a bridge signalman
on the USS Hayneworth, a
destroyer.
He is now in Wilmington
attending the Beacom Business College.
SOURCE: Salisbury Daily
Times, 30 August, 1947.
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