Title	Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida
Description	Eddie Rickenbacker giving a speech at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida. Caption on verso reads, "Change of command of VP-16. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker addresses the personnel of VP-16 on his adventures during the early part of WWII and the part of CDR. Boutte in the drama." Commander Lester H. Boutte was being installed as the new commander of VP-16. Boutte was a radioman aboard an amphibious scouting plane in 1942 when he spotted Rickenbacker and two others on a life raft in the Pacific where they had been lost at sea for three weeks.
Creator	Official Photograph U. S. Navy
Publisher	Auburn University Libraries
Date	1963-04-30
Decade	1960s
LC Subject Headings	Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 Air pilots -- United States Fighter pilots -- United States Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 Naval Air Station Jacksonville (Fla.) World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean World War, 1939-1945 -- Search and rescue operations Rescues
Format	JPEG
Type	Image
Technical Information	Black and White Photo
Accession Number	101-96-066-2-326
Collection	Eddie Rickenbacker Papers
Repository	Auburn University. Special Collections and Archives
Language	eng
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Submitted by	Abernethy, Lynn
Date Submitted	2006-08-29