Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz presenting the Navy Cross to Cmdr Worth Scanland, USN at Key West FL. on a visit to the Submarine Base in the spring of 1946. This award to Hawkbill's skipper was a symbolic recognition of the gallantry of her officers and crew in deliberately positioning herself on the surface in front of a pair of MOMO class destroyers, and in a night surface attack, sinking them both during her second War Patrol
