Preview
Identifier
20026044
Description
Lieutenant Elmer A. Addington Junior, a Marine pilot was in Fort Worth, Texas visiting his parents. He was a football letterman of North Side High School, Texas Christian University, and Texas Wesleyan College before enlisting. For the past sixteen months he has been piloting a B-25 with a Marine Air Wing. He completed twenty-seven missions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with three gold stars. He is wearing his military uniform and standing with his hand is trousers' pocket. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram evening edition, December 24, 1945.
Archival Date
1945-12-18
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-376
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
Rights
Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Subjects
Awards; Distinguished Flying Cross; Military uniforms
Names
Addington, Elmer
Subjects
Awards; Distinguished Flying Cross; Military uniforms