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LtGen Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller, USMC
Lewis Burwell Puller joined the United States Marine Corps at the end of WW1, and spent most of the 20s as an enlisted man. He became an officer in the Marine Corps in the mid-20s, and spent the late 20s and early 30s in Nicaragua.
By the mid-30s, his reputation as one of the premier small unit tactics experts in the Marine Corps resulted in his teaching that course at the Marines Basic school for three years. About a third of the junior officers in the Corps during the period took the course from him.
When WW2 started, he served first on Guadalcanal, then New Britain, and finally Peleliu. He later saw extensive action in Korea, retiring in 1955 and dying in 1971.
He had an extensive combat record and a series of awards that are hard to match: he remains the only Marine to ever be awarded five Navy Crosses.
Additional Links
Read more about Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell Puller at the following sites:
USMC History Division - Who's Who in Marine Corps History
http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Whos_Who/Puller_LB.htm
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller