At first I was thinking Colonel Peter Julien Ortiz but I don't think that is right.
Incorrect answer Major .
PS : Very nice profile picture You are very handsome and very smiling !! 
Vee 
Thanks! That was taken last Thankgiving when I built the .50 Cal out of wood. Good times indeed!
Clue , he was a United States Marine Corps officer who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroic conduct during action during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. He also earned the Silver Star Medal during the initial landing on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands and the Purple Heart.
Vee
Oh see now you make it too easy! I'll wait a day or so, however, to others in on the game. He had a destroyer escort named for him and then its construction was cancelled. He eventually had another destroyer named for him right at the end of the war.
Go ahead Todd, this one is yours.
