Description

Luis de Florez, right, shakes hands with Artemis Lamb Gates during an award ceremony. Technology Review, January 1946, p. 175. Original Credit Line: U.S. Navy, 701485.

Original Caption: "Rear Admiral Luis de Florez, USNR, awarded DSM--Under Secretary of the Navy Artemus L. Gates on November 6, 1945, presented the Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral Luis de Florez, USNR, of Pomfret, Conn., for exceptionally meritorious service as Director of the Special Devices Division of the Bureau of Aeronautics and as Assistant Chief of Research and Inventions, Navy Department. The ceremony was held at the Navy Department in Washington, D.C."

Original Caption: "Luis de Florez, '11, receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from Artemus L. Gates, as Under Secretary of the Navy".