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Recipient of the Navy Cross, our Nation's 2nd highest award for valor. Bronze Star and Purple Heart. No better example of our greatest generation. Thank you and all the others for their selfless service.
God bless, another warrior guarding Heavens streets. Semper Fidelis, will regroup at the rally point Ooh Rah!
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Marine who led WWII charge up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima dies
By Matthew L. Schehl, Marine Corps Times19 hours ago
Recipient of the Navy Cross, our Nation's 2nd highest award for valor. Bronze Star and Purple Heart. No better example of our greatest generation. Thank you and all the others for their selfless service.
God bless, another warrior guarding Heavens streets. Semper Fidelis, will regroup at the rally point Ooh Rah!
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Marine who led WWII charge up Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima dies
By Matthew L. Schehl, Marine Corps Times19 hours ago
Denver 7. “He honored and loved the Marine Corps with all his heart and soul. He loved his family, and his last words were, ‘My family.’ ”
Wells, as leader of the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, successfully conducted the Feb. 21, 1945, assault over open terrain against a well-entrenched and stalwart defender.
The engagement gained his platoon the distinction as the most decorated platoon to fight in a single engagement in the history of the Marine Corps.
With “courageous leadership and indomitable fighting spirit,” Wells led demolition teams from one enemy bunker to the other, knocking out at least 25 emplacements in the process, according to his Navy Cross citation.
“In the face of intense hostile machine-gun, mortar and rifle fire, [he] continuously moved from one flank to the other to lead assault groups one by one in their attacks on Japanese emplacements,” Well’s citation states.
