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NH 84955 Hospital Apprentice First Class Fred F. Lester, USN

Photo #: NH 84955 Hospital Apprentice First Class Fred F. Lester, USN
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Title: Hospital Apprentice First Class Fred F. Lester, USN
Description: Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official publication Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy, page 218. Fred F. Lester was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while serving as a Medical Corpsman with an Assault Rifle Platoon attached to the First Battalion, Twenty-Second Marines, Sixth Marine Division in action on Okinawa against Japanese forces on 8 June 1945. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 84955
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