428-GX-USN 1173024

Pacific Ocean. Admiral Elmo Zuwalt, back to camera, Chief of Naval Operations, chats with Lieutenant Randall H. Cunningham, second from left, and Lieutenant William Driscoll, left, during the ceremony when Zumwalt presented the men Silver Stars for downing a MiG-21 aircraft over North Vietnam. The ceremony was performed on board USS Constellation (CVA 64). Commander Al. Newman, Commanding Officer of Fighter Squadron 96 (VF 96) is at right. Cunningham and Driscoll later became “Aces” of the Vietnam War. Photograph released February 27, 1972. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Photographed from small reference card. (2016/03/08)

Date

2016

Photographer / author

National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

1,614 × 1,284 pixels

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