80-G-23744:  Navy Cross.  Captain Richard L. Blain, USMCR, receives the Navy Cross from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, at Pacific Fleet Headquarters.  Captain Blain piloted a scout bomber in the Battle of Midway and scored a hit on a Japanese carrier.  With his radioman-gunner, Private First Class Gordon R. McFeely was forced to land in the water, was rescued two days later by a Navy patrol plane.   Photograph received 1942-43.   Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.  (2018/03/08).
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