Congressional Medal of Honor winner Henry E. Erwin speaking into a microphone, probably during a radio broadcast from Northington Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Erwin, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, saved the crew of the bomber, "The City of Los Angeles, " by throwing a burning phosphoresce smoke bomb out a window of the plane.
Main Author: | Northington PRO, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. |
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Format: | Electronic |
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/18441 |
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