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Navy to name destroyer after Korean War hero from Concord

By Bryan Bender

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 07, 2012

In a rare honor for a living person, the Navy plans to announce it is naming a new destroyer after Fall River native Thomas J. Hudner, 87, who earned the Medal of Honor in the Korean War for intentionally crashing his fighter plane in an attempt to save his wingman, the Navy’s first black pilot. The decision, made by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, is the culmination of a lobbying campaign championed last month by both Senators Scott P. Brown and John F. Kerry.

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