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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-708180

Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Thomas J. Hudner, USN
,
of Fall River, Massachusetts

Portrait photograph, dated 3 April 1950.
He was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroically attempting to rescue Ensign Jesse L. Brown, who had been shot down by enemy fire near the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, on 4 December 1950.

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

Online Image: 50KB; 585 x 765 pixels

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3 November 1999