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NH 46077 President Calvin Coolidge Lieutenant Junior Grade Thomas J. Ryan, Jr., USN

Photo #: NH 46077 President Calvin Coolidge Lieutenant Junior Grade Thomas J. Ryan, Jr., USN
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Title: President Calvin Coolidge Lieutenant Junior Grade Thomas J. Ryan, Jr., USN
Description: Photo #: NH 46077 President Calvin Coolidge (left) and (right) Photographed on 15 March 1924 at the White House after President Coolidge had presented the Medal of Honor to LtJG Ryan. He received the award for extraordinary heroism in rescuing a woman from the Grand Hotel at Yokohama, Japan, which was on fire after the Great Kanto earthquake, 1 September 1923. He was then attached to the American Embassy at Tokyo, Japan. The others in the photograph are unidentified. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 46077
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