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Photo #: 80-G-10562 Lieutenant Edward H. "Butch" O'Hare, USN View taken on 10 April 1942 at Naval Air Station, Maui, Hawaii in the cockpit of his Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat Fighter. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for shooting down five Japanese planes on 20 February 1942, while he was defending USS Lexington during an attempted a raid on the enemy base Rabaul. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 49KB; 595 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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Image Posted 14 January 2009