Chesty Puller
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Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller was a United States Marine Corps officer. Beginning his career fighting guerillas in Haiti and Nicaragua as part of the Banana Wars, he later served with distinction in W
Puller in 1950
Puller (center left), Sergeant William "Ironman" Lee (center right), and two Nicaraguan soldiers in 1931
Lieutenant Colonel Puller on Guadalcanal in September 1942
Colonel Puller cutting the Marine Corps birthday cake on November 10, 1950.
Banana Wars
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The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spani
Chesty Puller
…26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps officer. Beginning his career fighting guerillas in Haiti and Nicaragua as part of the Banana Wars, he later served with distinction in World War II and the Korean War as a senior officer. By the time of his retirement in 1955, he had reached the…
US Marines with the captured flag of Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua in 1932
United States Marines with a Haitian guide patrolling the jungle in 1915 during the Battle of Fort Dipitie
William Allen Rogers cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick ideology
American warships off Veracruz in 1914