Chief Boatswain’s Mate Orson Leon Crandall The actions for which this week’s DoD featured Medal of Honor recipient was awarded our nation’s highest military decoration are somewhat different than for most Medal of Honor recipients, but nevertheless heroic and fascinating. The citation accompanying Chief Boatswain’s Mate* Orson Leon Crandall’s Medal of Honor presentation reads: For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession as a master diver throughout the rescue and salvage operations following the sinking of the U.S.S. Squalus on 23 May 1939. His leadership and devotion to duty in di…