LCDR J. M. Bland, RANR(S), commanding a naval beach party, landed with the first wave, and guided troops ashore under heavy enemy fire, at Finschhafen, New Guinea. Bland was killed shortly after the landing. He was awarded the US Navy Cross posthumously for outstanding bravery in the face of the enemy.
LEUT H. Henty-Creer, RANVR, commanded the midget submarine X-5 in the attack on the German Ship TIRPITZ, (battleship), in Kaa Fiord, Norway. X-5 was sighted within 450 metres of TIRPITZ, but proof that she laid her charges under the battleship before she herself was destroyed, has not been established. Wreckage, believed to be X-5, was found within 360 metres of where TIRPITZ was moored. Several attempts to have Henty-Creer awarded the VC posthumously have not met with success.