For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a Corpsman with Company H, Second Battalion, Fifth Marine Division in connection with operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On the morning of 26 February 1968, during Operation Hue...
Writing to his parents from Vietnam in 1966 and 1967, Marine Corps Corporal Robert G. Geisler, Jr., offered up all of the brutal details of his combat experiences, describing the high incidence of booby traps, mines, and casualties, and the impact that witnessing such...
Mark Black was killed in the Quang Tri Republic of Vietnam, on 13 Aug 1967, by a gunshot wound to the chest from hostile rifle fire while engaged in action while serving in Company D, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. We honor you, Mark Black. (#Repost @Purple Heart Hall of...
Racacho served with D Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. Corporal Racacho was wounded on 24 August 1968 while he was leaving the helicopter he was on and was hit in the right arm by a gunshot. Later he received more wounds to his neck and head...
John Cockburn had been a Marine for nearly eight months on December 7, 1941, when he was stationed on the USS Maryland in Pearl Harbor. His most memorable experience in the war came as part of an artillery company that landed on Iwo Jima on its D-Day, February 19,...
“SKI” as he was always known, grew up in Ohio and joined the Marines, six months before the attack on Pearl Harbor at the age of 17. During WWII he participated in action against the enemy at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942; New Guinea Operation in 1943;...
