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2003 - ✔✔Operation Iraqi Freedom
2004A - ✔✔Retaking of Fallujah Operation Vigilant Resolve
2004B - ✔✔Operation Phantom Fury and Operation The Dawn in Iraq
Battle of Guadalcanal - ✔✔Aug 7 1942 Solomon Islands first attempt of Amphibous Doctrine
Battle of Belluwood - ✔✔France WW1 Germans rated Marines as "Storm Troopers" Higest rating
also Devil Dogs
Battle of Tarawa - ✔✔Gilbert Islands "It will take 1 million Americans 100 years to concure it" It took
76 hours
Battle of Mariana Islands - ✔✔Saipan Guam and Tinian Largest number of troops under
Marine Command
Battle of Iwo Jima - ✔✔Largest Bloodiest battle in Maine history 23300 casualties "uncommon Valor
wsa a common Virtue"
Battle of Chosin Reservoir - ✔✔North Korea 1950 10 Chinese Divisions, 7 stopped evaced dead used
all operable equipment and maintained tactical intergrity
, Battle of Hue City - ✔✔Vietnamese Holiday Tet Jan 1968 Fighting was House to House progress
messured in yards
Archibald Henderson - ✔✔Commandant for 39 Years known as the "Grand old man of the
Marine Corps"
Sergeant Major John Quick - ✔✔Got a Medal of Honor for an emergency lift of Naval
Bombardment while under Spanish and American Shell Fire 1898.
Sergent Major Dan Daly - ✔✔2 Medals of Honor 1st Boxer Rebellion 2nd Caco War in Haiti "Come
on you sons of bitches do you want to live forever?" Belleuwood.
Louis B. "Chesty" Puller - ✔✔Lt Gen Puller Nicaragua "Tiger of the Mountians" Chesty the Bulldog
named after him.
Gregory R. "Pappy" Boyington - ✔✔Maj Boyington Aerial Ace VMH-214 "Black Sheep" Top Flying Ace
28 kills
Ira H. Hayes - ✔✔Pima Indian. Did the Second Flag Raising on Mount Suribachi Iwo Jima 23Feb1945
Opha Mae Johnson - ✔✔First Enlisted Marine Female 13AUG1918
Margaret A. Brewer - ✔✔Brig Gen Brewer Director of Female Marines first General Officer Female
Robert E. Bush - ✔✔Medal of Honor Battle of Okinawa WW2
John H."Jack" Bradley - ✔✔1 of 6 to raise flag in Iwo Jima Earned Navy Cross for lafe saving aid
to Marine
Robert R. Ingram - ✔✔Medal of Honor in Vietnam gave medical aid while under heavy enemy fire
and receiving 4 wounds