A Marine as Citizen
Angus Alberson of Hartford, Alabama served in the Marine Corps from 1966 until 1970. He graduated from boot camp at Parris Island after which he…
Col Chuck Geiger, USMC (Ret)
Col Charles Ray Geiger, USMC (Ret), known as Chuck Geiger (call sign “Troll”), is a Carolina Marine and a friend of Carolina Museum of the…
Petty Officer 2nd Class William Halyburton Jr.
William Halyburton Jr. was born on August 2, 1924 in Canton, North Carolina. He had two brothers, Bob and Joe. In 1940, Halyburton’s family moved…
Sgt Nicole Gee
Sgt Nicole Gee of Roseville, California enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2017, and was assigned to Combat Logistics Battalion 24, Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2nd Marine Logistics Group,…
Sergeant Major Thomas J. McHugh
Thomas J. McHugh was born in New York City on 23 December 1919 to Peter and Bridget Porter McHugh. SgtMaj McHugh grew up in Philadelphia…
MajGen Lewie G. Merritt
Lewie Merritt was born in Ridge Spring, South Carolina on June 26, 1897. In 1917, at the age of 19, Merritt graduated from the Citadel…
Jack Lucas
On October 5, 1945, 17-year-old Marine Corps rifleman Jack Lucas was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Harry Truman for heroism in combat on…
HMLA-269 is Back in Service
On July 1, 2024, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269, “The Gunrunners,” was reactivated at MCAS New River in North Carolina. HMLA-269 was formed at…
“Ace of Aces,” Joe Foss
Captain Joe Foss, USMC, was a fighter pilot at Guadalcanal during WWII. Within five months of arriving at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Foss had shot…
Floyd Gibbons at Belleau Wood
Recent issues of both the Marine Corps Times and the Navy Times contain an article titled “The Man who made Belleau Wood—and the Marine Corps—Immortal.”[i] The article discusses Chicago Tribune…
BGen Charles Lauchheimer and the Lauchheimer Trophy
On March 15, 2024, Leatherneck Magazine published an article by Col Dwight H. Sullivan titled “The Life of Lauchheimer: The Man Behind the Corps’ Top Shooting Trophy.” In…
Navy Corpsmen at Iwo Jima
At the website of the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, one finds an article titled “Beyond Heroism: Hospital Corpsmen and the Battle for Iwo…
