Charles Banks; Navy Cross Winner

Charles Banks, 73, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general who fought with Edson’s Raiders at Guadalcanal in World War II and won the Navy Cross for heroism in the Korean War. Banks was awarded the Navy Cross for extreme bravery during the Marine breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. Banks, whose decorations also included the Silver Star, retired from the Marines in 1959 and entered business. At the time of his death, he was vice president of the Harper Group, a San Francisco-based shipping company. In San Francisco on Monday of cancer.