Keywords: Carlton B Hutchins.jpg en Lieutenant Junior Grade Carlton B Hutchins United States Navy Photograph taken on 15 September 1934 when he was assigned to USS Memphis CL-13 He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism on 2 February 1938 when as pilot of a PBY-2 patrol bomber he remained at the controls of his badly damaged aircraft after it collided with another PBY-2 off the California coast thus affording an opportunity for other crew members to parachute to safety Lieutenant Hutchins was killed in the plane's subsequent crash Naval Historical Center's Online Library of Selected Images http //www history navy mil/photos/images/h48000/h48987c htm Photo NH 48987 author 1934-09-15 Public domain DEFAULTSORT Hutchins Carlton B PD-USGov-Military-Navy Naval officers of the United States United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients |