Jacklyn Harold Lucas Youngest Marine to Receive Medal of Honor

Jacklyn Harold Lucas Youngest Marine to Receive Medal of Honor

Nov 14 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was sixteen when hell opened its jaws on Iwo Jima. Not a man by any common measure. Just a boy built from grit, a fierce heart hammered in the forge of hardship. The flames of ...

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Jacklyn Lucas and the Sacrifice That Saved His Iwo Jima Squad

Jacklyn Lucas and the Sacrifice That Saved His Iwo Jima Squad

Nov 14 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was not supposed to live that day. At seventeen, he was barely a boy, yet bloodied and broken he became the youngest Marine awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II. Two gren...

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Jacklyn Lucas Iwo Jima survivor who dove on two grenades at 17

Jacklyn Lucas Iwo Jima survivor who dove on two grenades at 17

Nov 14 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just seventeen when he stepped into hell and turned its fury away from others. Two grenades at once—no hesitation. He dove on them, not once, but twice. Flesh and bone beca...

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

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

Nov 14 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old when he stared into the maw of death and chose to carry the weight of it all. A storm of enemy grenades rained down on his unit at Iwo Jima. Without hesit...

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas, Youngest Medal of Honor Marine at Iwo Jima

Jacklyn Harold Lucas, Youngest Medal of Honor Marine at Iwo Jima

Nov 13 , 2025

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The blast tore through the morning like a savage thunderclap. A pair of grenades landed among young Marines digging in on Iwo Jima—death wrapped in iron and fire, ready to swallow a platoon whole. ...

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Jacklyn Lucas, Boy Who Earned the Medal of Honor at Iwo Jima

Jacklyn Lucas, Boy Who Earned the Medal of Honor at Iwo Jima

Nov 13 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was fifteen years old when the ground exploded at Iwo Jima, and his world ruptured in a single heartbeat. Two grenades—one after the other—landed in the foxhole where he crouch...

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