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Title: Honored for heroism
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Description: Photograph caption dated March 29, 1958 reads "Army's highest peacetime honor, Soldier's Medal, is presented to Pfc. Donald Galbreath, 23, of Sunland, by Brig. Gen. Willis A. Perry, commanding general of 47th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade, Fort MacArthur. Galbreath received honor for saving fellow soldier from drowning in raging surf."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00155300
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d059_f17_i32
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/128554
Subject: United States.--Army--Officers
United States.--Army--Medals, badges, decorations, etc
Generals--United States
Soldiers--United States--Medals, badges, decorations, etc
Award winners
Men
Armed Forces--Officers
Lifesaving
Military uniforms
Sunland (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1951-1960

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