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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Original Caption: Winner of first war medal awarded by Navy.  Patrick McGonnigal of Youngstown, Ohio, a ship's fitter, has received the first navy medal of honor to be awarded since the U.S. entered the war.  McGonnigal at great hazard to himself leaped into the sea in the submarine zone and rescued an aero pilot whose balloon had swamped by a sudden squall.  He cleared the tangle holding the pilot prisoner, tied to a line around him and hauled him to the deck of the cruiser.  He himself was subsequently rescued with some difficulty.  He was 39 years old and has been in the navy for sixteen years.</li></ul>
Photographer: International Film Service</div>
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