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NH 48987 Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Carlton B. Hutchins, USN

Photo #: NH 48987 Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Carlton B. Hutchins, USN
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Title: Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Carlton B. Hutchins, USN
Description: Photograph taken on 15 September 1934 when he was assigned to USS Memphis (CL-13). He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism on 2 February 1938 when, as pilot of a PBY-2 patrol bomber, he remained at the controls of his badly damaged aircraft after it collided with another PBY-2 off the California coast, thus affording an opportunity for other crew members to parachute to safety. Lieutenant Hutchins was killed in the plane's subsequent crash, . U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 48987
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