Keywords: groupshot people monochrome Lot-9427-16: A Medal for America’s New Envoy to Russia. President Franklin D. Roosevelt pins the Navy Distinguished Service Medal on Admiral William H. Standley, former Chief of Naval Operations, and new Ambassador to the U.S.S.R, as Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy looks on. Photograph released March 1942 by Office of War Information. (2015/11/20). Lot-9427-16: A Medal for America’s New Envoy to Russia. President Franklin D. Roosevelt pins the Navy Distinguished Service Medal on Admiral William H. Standley, former Chief of Naval Operations, and new Ambassador to the U.S.S.R, as Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy looks on. Photograph released March 1942 by Office of War Information. (2015/11/20). |