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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Bust shot of James Arthur French Jr., Navy Medic. (1951). Retrieved from https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20156120

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. "Bust shot of James Arthur French Jr., Navy Medic." UTA Libraries Digital Gallery. 1951. Accessed
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Bust shot of James Arthur French Jr., Navy Medic. 1951. UTA Libraries Digital Gallery, https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20156120. 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: AR406-6-2617
Identifier: 20156120
Title: Bust shot of James Arthur French Jr., Navy Medic
Description: Image shows a bust shot of James French, Navy medic in dress uniform. James Arthur French Jr. attached to the 1st Marine division in Korea. He won a Silver Star for extreme bravery and a Purple Heart for a leg injury. He is visiting his parents at 1612 Lagonda. In Korea he used frozen enemy bodies as a barricade. His company was reduced from 250 to 50 in a week. He had to amputate the legs of a comrade to save his life. After arriving on the Korean front the Chinese Communists arrived. He was then hit in the thigh with a slug. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram evening edition May 2, 1951.
Date Created: 1951-05-01
Coverage: 1950s
Category: Military
Subject Term: Soldiers, Military uniforms, Military decorations
Collection: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Language: None
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: Big Hair and Bigger Business: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Captures the 1950s

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