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Photo #: NH 106453

Corporal Luther Skaggs, Jr., USMCR


Wearing the Medal of Honor, which was awarded for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" while serving as a Squad Leader with a Mortar Section of a Rifle Company in the Third Battalion, Third Marines, Third Marine Division in action against the Japanese on the Asan-Adelup Beachhead, Guam Marianas Islands on 21-22 July 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Online Image: 42KB; 580 x 765 pixels

 

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    Image Posted 19 March 2009
    Edited and reposted 9 October 2009