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Forrest O. Rednour
Forrest O. Rednour (1923–1943) was a United States Coast Guardsman who received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal posthumously for his actions during World War II.
==Biography==
Forrest Orin Rednour was born in Cutler, Illinois, on 13 May 1923. He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard at Chicago, Illinois, on 19 June 1941.
During the predawn darkness of 3 February 1943, Rednour, wearing a rubber suit to ward off hypothermia, was among the members of the crew of the United States Coast Guard Cutter USCGC ''Escanaba'' (WPG-77) who voluntarily subjected themselves to pounding seas and bitter cold in the winter North Atlantic darkness for nearly four hours to rescue survivors from the torpedoed troop transport . Realizing the "... danger of being crushed between the rafts and the ship's side, or of being struck by a propeller blade if the engines backed, he swam in under the counter of the constantly maneuvering ''Escanaba'' and prevented many floating survivors from being caught in the suction of the screws, in one instance retrieving a loaded raft."〔This quotation, from the ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/r3/rednour.htm) is unattributed.〕 Rednour worked the longest of all retrievers and accounted for the greatest number of survivors, but finally had to quit when his rubber suit became torn.
Rednour perished early on the morning of 13 June 1943 when ''Escanaba'' disintegrated in a massive explosion of undertermined cause in the North Atlantic Ocean off Ivituut, Greenland, with a loss of 101 of the 103 men aboard.
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