
Lt Cmdr. Lonnie Mixon (L) and Lt. Jack Rittichier
photo courtesy of Cmdr. Doug Kroll, CHC, USNR (retired) via the USCG Historian's Department

letter to Lt. Rittichier re his being awarded the Air Medal

a photocopy of Lt. Rittichier's Purple Heart jacketcover; it arrived cut off like this
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