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Chief Warrant Officer 4 Frederick Dean Mann lived from Oct.
14, 1918 until his death Jan. 9, 2017. Mann enlisted in the Coast Guard on August 27, 1939 and
retired after 31 years of service. During his service, he was assigned to the USS GEORGE F.
ELLIOTT, a Navy transport ship, off the coast of Guadalcanal in 1942. After an enemy plane
was shot down and crashed into the ship, Chief Warrant Officer Mann responded heroically to
the resulting fire and was awarded the Silver Star Medal for his conspicuous gallantry in the
face of great personal danger.
His Silver Star citation reads as follows:
"For conspicuous gallantry while attached to the USS George Elliott in action against Japanese
forces off Guadalcanal August 8, 1942. When a hostile plane was shot down and exploded on
board the ship, transforming the ship into a blazing torch, Mann carried a fire hose into the
troop ammunition magazine to flood the compartment. Subsequently, despite suffocating smoke
and dangerously heated bulkheads he reentered the compartment recovered the hose and
continued his efforts. His action prevented the magazine from exploding. "