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John Archer Lejeune (/ l ə ˈ ʒ ɜːr n / lə-ZHURN; [2] January 10, 1867 – November 20, 1942) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Lejeune served for nearly 40 years in the military, and commanded the U.S. Army's 2nd Division during World War I .
The medal was approved by the Secretary of the Navy on June 10, 1920, and presented by the Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps, John A. Lejeune, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., July 1, 1920. After the ceremony he took a short furlough to his hometown of St. Louis before returning to Haiti.
Name Class year Notability References William Harwar Parker: 1848 Naval Academy Instructor and Professor of Mathematics, Navigation and Astronomy (1853–1857); served with the Virginia State Navy during the American Civil War, then the Confederacy and Confederate States Naval Academy by serving as its Superintendent from October 1863 on the school ship CSS Patrick Henry, located outside of ...
*John A. Lejeune 2 1924 Washington, DC *John A. Lejeune 3 1925 Philadelphia, PA *John A. Lejeune 4 1926 Cleveland, OH *John A. Lejeune 5 1927 Erie, PA *John A. Lejeune 6 1928 Dallas, TX *John A. Lejeune 7 1929 Cincinnati, OH *John A. Lejeune *Wendell C. Neville 8 1930 St Louis, MO *W. Karl Lations 9 1931 Buffalo, NY *W. Karl Lations 1932
John F. Mackie – first Marine awarded the Medal of Honor [5] David M. Shoup – was a general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II , served as the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps , and, after retiring, became one of the most prominent critics of the Vietnam War .
Nov. 8—From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, water at and around Camp Lejeune, a Marine base on the coast of North Carolina, was contaminated with numerous carcinogenic and harmful chemicals. In ...
Over 86 years, the Marine Corps awarded 121 brevet promotions to 100 Marine Corps officers. Captain Anthony Gale was the first to receive a brevet promotion in 1814, and John Twiggs Myers, who died in 1952, was the last surviving recipient. In 1921, Commandant John A. Lejeune requested that a Marine Corps Brevet Medal be authorized. After it ...
On March 6, just days before the helicopter crash, Staff Sgt. Andrew C. Seif was awarded the Silver Star Medal. Seif, 26, received the award for facing enemy fire to save a mortally wounded friend ...