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Thomas Jerome Hudner Jr. (August 31, 1924 – November 13, 2017) was a United States Navy officer and naval aviator. He rose to the rank of captain, and received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War .
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Nov 7, 2022 · Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Thomas Hudner proudly bears the name of Medal of Honor recipient Captain Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., who received the nation’s top military honor for his heroic...
Nov 13, 2017 · On the afternoon of Dec. 4, 1950, shortly after China had entered the Korean War, Thomas J. Hudner Jr., a lieutenant junior grade, was piloting one of six Navy Corsairs on a three-hour ...
Nov 16, 2017 · Capt. Thomas V. Hennessey, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) knew Hudner for more than 30 years from the Wardroom Club, a dining club for active and former Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Officers. “He...
Thomas Jerome Hudner Jr. For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as a pilot in Fighter Squadron 32, while attempting to rescue a squadron mate whose plane, struck by antiaircraft fire and trailing smoke, was forced down behind enemy lines.
Dec 4, 2021 · Lieutenant (j.g.) Thomas Hudner, Jr. On Brown’s 20th combat mission, December 4, 1950, both men were in a six-plane squadron providing support to the embattled Marines at Chosin Reservoir, Korea. Fifteen miles behind enemy lines, Brown’s aircraft was shot down.
Nov 14, 2017 · A former U.S. Navy captain and pilot who received the Medal of Honor for his heroics during the Korean War has died. Thomas Hudner Jr. was 93.
Nov 13, 2017 · WASHINGTON -- In the decades since returning home to Massachusetts from the Korean War, Thomas J. Hudner Jr. has been haunted by what he left behind. The former fighter pilot risked his life, and won the nation's highest medal for valor, by crash-landing his own plane and attempting to save his downed wing man, Jesse L. Brown.
Nov 14, 2017 · Thomas J. Hudner Jr., then a 26-year-old Navy pilot with the rank of lieutenant junior grade, did not radio for permission on Dec. 4, 1950, when amid a punishing battle in the Korean War he...
U.S. Navy Lieutenant, j.g. Thomas Jerome Hudner Jr. was presented the Medal of Honor for military valor during the Korean War.
