NARA photo 80-G-56122
Presentation of the Navy Cross and citation to Capt. Andrew J. Hill by Commodore Thomas J. Ryan, Jr. (right), on board Nicholas at Purvis Bay, Florida Island, 22 August 1943, for courageous work in picking up survivors of the USS Helena (CL 50) sunk in the Battle of Kula Gulf in the presence of enemy ships.