Photo #: NH 46077
President Calvin Coolidge (left)
and
Lieutenant Junior Grade Thomas J. Ryan, Jr., USN (right)
Photographed on 15 March 1924 at the White House after President
Coolidge had presented the Medal of Honor to LtJG Ryan.
He received the award for "extraordinary heroism" in
rescuing a woman from the Grand Hotel at Yokohama, Japan, which
was on fire after the Great Kanto earthquake, 1 September 1923.
He was then attached to the American Embassy at Tokyo, Japan.
The others in the photograph are unidentified.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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