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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97095

Captain Thomas J. Hudner, USN

Head, Aviation Technical Training, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

Principal speaker at the launching of USS Jesse L. Brown (DE-1089), at Avondale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiania, 18 March 1972.
During the Korean War, then Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Hudner received the Medal of Honor (worn in this photograph) for heroically attempting to rescue Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the ship's namesake.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 

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8 November 1999