Photo #: NH 79957
Robert Penn, Fireman Second Class, USN
"An explosion was averted by their quickness."
Halftone reproduction of an artwork by Bacon, depicting Robert
Penn's heroism in a fireroom accident on board USS Iowa
(Battleship # 4) on 20 July 1898, during the Spanish-American
War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in that incident.
Copied from Deeds of Valor, Volume II, page 405, published
in 1907 by the Perrien-Keydel Co., Detroit, Michigan.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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