Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a 246-square-mile United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Its 14 miles of beaches make the base a major area for amphibious assault
A M1A1 Abrams main battle tank with 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune during 2013
Marine motor detachment, New River Barracks, 1942
Betty Grable at the New River, 1942
Royal Bermuda Regiment shoot at Stonebay Rifle Range on 12 May 2021
John Archer Lejeune was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Lejeune served for nearly 40 years in the military, and commanded the U.S. Army's 2
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
…Point in 1942. The base was known as Marine Barracks New River, N.C. Later that year it was renamed in honor of the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, John A. Lejeune, upon his death. One of the satellite facilities of Camp Lejeune served for a while as a third boot camp for the Marines, in addition to Parris Island…
John A. Lejeune, (Major General) U.S. Marine Corps, 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps (1920–1929)
The senior officers of the 1st Marine Brigade photographed at Veracruz in 1914. Front row, left to right: Lt. Col. Wendell C. Neville; Col. John A. Lejeune; Col. Littleton W. T. Waller, Commanding; and Maj. Smedley Butler.
Major General Omar Bundy, former commander of the 2nd Division, and Major General John A. Lejeune of the USMC, the division's current commander, at Marbache, France, August 11, 1918.
General John J. Pershing, C-in-C of the AEF, congratulating Major General Lejeune, CG 2nd Division, on the fine noble done by men of the 2nd Division, Heddesdorf, Germany, December 1918.