The new headstone for WWII Navy veteran William Pinckney now reads Purple Heart and Navy Cross. Pinckney was awarded the nation’s second highest medal for valor for his unsurpassed bravery while rescuing his shipmates after a Japanese bomb exploded in the ammunition magazine in which Pinckney, a ship’s cook, was assigned as his battle station aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise during the Battle of Santa Cruz in October, 1942.