Keywords: portrait people blackandwhite monochrome black and white 80-G-44231: Commander James Ellsworth Kyes, USN. Photograph released January 11, 1944. Commander Kyes posthumously received the Navy Cross for “extraordinary heroism” as commanding officer of USS Leary (DD 158) when she was sunk by German submarines in the North Atlantic on December 23, 1943. USS James F. Kyes (DD 787) was named in his honor. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/11/29). 80-G-44231: Commander James Ellsworth Kyes, USN. Photograph released January 11, 1944. Commander Kyes posthumously received the Navy Cross for “extraordinary heroism” as commanding officer of USS Leary (DD 158) when she was sunk by German submarines in the North Atlantic on December 23, 1943. USS James F. Kyes (DD 787) was named in his honor. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/11/29). |