Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Marine to Receive Medal of Honor at Iwo Jima

Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Marine to Receive Medal of Honor at Iwo Jima

Dec 25 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was sixteen when hell came calling. Just a kid by any measure—barely out of his teens—but that day on Iwo Jima, he stood taller than mountains. When grenades landed among his s...

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Jack Lucas Iwo Jima Grenade Sacrifice Earned Him the Medal of Honor

Jack Lucas Iwo Jima Grenade Sacrifice Earned Him the Medal of Honor

Dec 25 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was barely nineteen when hell rained down on Iwo Jima. Two grenades, exploding at once, threatened his entire platoon. Without hesitation, that scrawny kid dove on them—twice. ...

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas Youngest Marine to Receive the Medal of Honor

Jacklyn Harold Lucas Youngest Marine to Receive the Medal of Honor

Dec 23 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was no bigger than the grenades he smothered. A kid turned warrior before his seventeenth birthday—raw courage forged on the blood-soaked sands of Iwo Jima. The youngest Marine...

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Jacklyn H. Lucas, Teenage Marine Awarded Medal of Honor for Iwo Jima

Jacklyn H. Lucas, Teenage Marine Awarded Medal of Honor for Iwo Jima

Dec 23 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fourteen years old when death pressed close enough to count his heartbeat. Grenades rained like thunder on Iwo Jima’s volcanic ash. Marines screamed, dove, cursed, some alr...

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Jack Lucas at Iwo Jima became the youngest Medal of Honor Marine

Jack Lucas at Iwo Jima became the youngest Medal of Honor Marine

Dec 22 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old the day he threw himself on two grenades, saving the lives of his fellow Marines on Iwo Jima. The young boy who lied about his age to enlist found himself...

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Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Marine Honored for Iwo Jima Valor

Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Marine Honored for Iwo Jima Valor

Dec 22 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was thirteen when he first witnessed the weight of war. Not in a classroom or a movie, but standing, steel in his eyes, on the beaches of Iwo Jima. The deafening roar, the chok...

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