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Photo #: 80-G-203818

Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, USN


Congratulates Private First Class Carl Emanuel Magnuson, USMC, after presenting him with the Purple Heart medal for wounds received in the invasion of the Gilbert Islands.
The ceremony took place on board a hospital ship at Pearl Harbor, on 17 December 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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31 October 2001