U.S. officers decorated for campaigns against Japan

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Caption on reverse:: "U.S. officers decorated for campaigns against Japanese. Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb (right), Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, presents the Legion of Merit decoration to Brigadier General De Witt Peck, USMC (left), and the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Lieutenant Colonel Frank Dailey, USMC (center). The award to Gen. Peck was for outstanding service as Assistant Chief of Staff for War Plans to the commander of the South Pacific area during the Solomon Islands campaign. Col. Dailey was decorated for heroic conduct as a Marine Corps wing gunnery officer during the campaign which drove Japanese forces from Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons. 1943."

1943

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