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President Harry W. Truman with Corporal Charles Farber

65-2877
Accession Number
65-2877
6.25x8 inches
Black & White
People Pictured
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President Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands and congratulates former United States Army Corporal Charles Farber of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Farber, pictured with his fiancée, Helen Baker, also of Altoona, Pennsylvania, is the once unknown Corporal "X" who saved the life of Medal of Honor winner Captain Raymond Harvey after Harvey had been critically wounded on the Korean battlefront.

Date(s)
February 8, 1952