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Photo #: NH 48987 Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Carlton B. Hutchins, USN 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 Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 54KB; 560 x 765 pixels

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Image Posted 30 January 2008