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April 6, 2013	Peer review	Reviewed
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Finn was Honored at Pearl Harbor

Navy News story if anyone wants to add it in. Medal of Honor Recipient Lt John Finn Visits Namesake Arizona White Boat --Brad (talk) 05:09, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Medals

The awards are incomplete. As he served on active duty until 1956 he is entitled to the National Defense Service Medal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.91.139.108 (talk) 15:10, 2 May 2015 (UTC) He would almost certainly be entitled to award of the Combat Action Ribbon as well, given that the award was made retroactive to December 7, 1941 specifically to include Pearl Harbor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:AB90:1B79:3D3F:C2CF:6B6F:287C (talk) 16:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Flag

@LtNOWIS: Sir, why the change to the pre-1959 flag? I understand that Lieutenant Finn left the Navy in '56, however that doesn't mean that his allegiance ended when he retired.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 05:30, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WP:INFOBOXFLAG doesn't have any specific guidance on this, but I've often seen infobox flags that are tied to the term of service. Going over some featured articles, George B. McClellan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Walter Krueger, and Thomas C. Kinkaid have the flag from when they entered the service. Douglas MacArthur has the flag from when he left the service, which makes the most sense to me. Arthur W. Radford, like Lieutenant Finn, spent his whole career under the 48-star flag and has that one in the infobox. Other articles like Audie Murphy and John F. Bolt have no flag. The only FA for an American WWII figure that uses the 50-star flag is Leslie Groves. So I would support using the 48-star flag, and most of the precedent supports that in my opinion, but the policy is that anything is fine. If you want to change it back that's fine by me, you're more involved in the article than I am. -LtNOWIS (talk) 08:36, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's fine, just curious. Thanks for the response!--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 13:09, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Butting in, it's partly for this reason that I always follow the "avoid flag icons in infoboxes" guideline at MOSFLAG. When there's no flag at all, you can't have arguments about which flag to use... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:21, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]