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[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0744]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "M/Sgt. L. M. Chilson, with hands still burned raw and legs in traction, was able to tell a hair raising plane crash escape story Wednesday in Medigan Army Hospital. The 41 year old Fort Sill soldier has been removed from the critical list."
Date: June 1, 1961
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0741]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the most decorated members of the 45th Infantry division during World War II- an adopted Thunderbird from Ohio- has returned to Oklahoma for a tour of duty. He is M/Sgt. Llewellyn Chilson, whose exploits with the 179th regiment of the 45th earned him the second largest collection of medals presented to an American soldier during that war. Lawton is the home of the regiment."
Date: June 24, 1964
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0746]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "M-Sgt. Llewellyn M. Chilson is a hard man to kill and he has a chest full of medals and many scars to prove it. One of the Army's most decorated soldiers, Sgt. Chilson two years ago last May survived a holocaust that few care to remember-- the crash of a giant C124 Golbemaster which claimed the lives of 18 men, including 12 Fort Sill soldiers."
Date: January 24, 1963
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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