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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Mr. Roy A. Knight. (1945). Retrieved from https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20036286

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. "Mr. Roy A. Knight." UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. 1945. Accessed
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Mr. Roy A. Knight. 1945. UTA Libraries Digital Gallery, https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20036286. Accessed
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Special Collections Reference Information

Original image part of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Identifier: AR406-6-614
Identifier: 20036286
Title: Mr. Roy A. Knight
Description: Mr. Roy A. Knight, the father of First Lieutenant Jack Llewellyn Knight, received news of his son's award the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for leading a victorious attack in Burma against Japanese pillboxes. Friday he received news of the award with the statement his son "was a true American". Mr. Knight is shown standing outside next to a car, wearing a button-down shirt tucked inside his trousers and a hat. Published in The Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, May 12, 1945.
Date Created: 1945-05-11
Coverage: 1940s
Category: Daily Life, Military, World Events
Subject Term: Knight, Roy A. (Mr.), Knight, Jack Llewellyn (1LT), Military officers, Medals, Military decorations, Congressional Medal of Honor, War, World War, 1939-1945, Automobiles
Collection: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Type: Still Image
Format: JPG
Publisher: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Rights Holder: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections
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Project Series: Through the Lens of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: A Photographic View of World War II in Fort Worth

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