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President Harry S. Truman presenting Lieutenant Hudner with the Medal of Honor in 1951.
Associated Press; thumbnail, Associated Press, 2013
Thomas Hudner
Died on November 13, 2017 at age 93
Lieutenant Hudner received the Medal of Honor for crash-landing his plane while attempting to rescue the Navy’s first black aviator during the Korean War.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.