Vice-Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who forced through the development and building of the Navy’s first nuclear-powered submarine, was awarded yesterday the Navy’s highest peace-time award, the Distinguished Service medal.
The award was presented to the Jewish naval officer on the deck of the Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine. It was presented to the Vice-Admiral by Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke on behalf of President Eisenhower as part of a ceremony marking the laying of the keel for a new Polaris submarine, the Marquis de Lafayette.
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