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Title: Posthumous citation to their son
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated May 18, 1955 reads, "Mr. and Mrs. H. David Kroll receive citation and Navy and Marine Corps medal from Capt. F. R. Bunker, commander of Naval Reserve Armory in Chávez Ravine, and Lieut. Comdr. W. F. Jolley (right). Awards were made posthumously to the Krolls for their son, Lieut. (jg) Robert L. Kroll, for heroic conduct when his ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 13, 1944."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;27 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095742
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 97.
CARL0005055767
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33097
Subject: United States.--Marine Corps
United States.--Navy
Marines--Medals, badges, decorations, etc
Parents--California--Los Angeles
Awards--California--Los Angeles
Military decorations--United States
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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