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Acts of Valor: Navy Divers

Graphic artistry re-creates the story of the four courageous U.S. Navy divers who earned Medals of Honor for rescuing the survivors of the sunken USS Squalus (SS-192) in 1939.
Kelly Swann
August 2021
Naval History
Volume 35, Number 4
Acts of Valor
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Kelly Swann

Kelly Swann earned her undergraduate degree in Graphic Arts from Loyola Marymount in 2007. After working for the Santa Maria Times as a graphic designer, art department supervisor, copy editor, and community news editor, she attended the Center for Cartoon Studies. In 2016 she earned a Master's Degree in Cartooning. Her work is featured in Naval History Magazine, the natural science comic anthology Awesome ‘Possum, and in the cartoonist veterans project When I Returned. Her upcoming work Kilroy Was Here, is in progress.

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