Jacklyn H. Lucas the 17-Year-Old Marine Who Earned the Medal of Honor

Jacklyn H. Lucas the 17-Year-Old Marine Who Earned the Medal of Honor

Oct 22 , 2025

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Jacklyn H. Lucas was 17 years old when he grabbed two live grenades and threw himself on them to save his brothers in battle. Seventeen years. A boy in a Marine’s body. The thunder of explosions sw...

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Jacklyn Lucas, Iwo Jima Teen Who Earned the Medal of Honor

Jacklyn Lucas, Iwo Jima Teen Who Earned the Medal of Honor

Oct 22 , 2025

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Jacklyn H. Lucas was just seventeen when war landed on his doorstep. But that day in Iwo Jima, age was a ghost drowned in fire and fury. Two grenades rolled into his foxhole. Without hesitation, he...

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Jacklyn H. Lucas Iwo Jima Teen Who Earned the Medal of Honor

Jacklyn H. Lucas Iwo Jima Teen Who Earned the Medal of Honor

Oct 09 , 2025

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Jacklyn H. Lucas was just seventeen when the war devoured his innocence—and spit back out a legend soaked in blood and grit. Only a boy with a rifle, but inside him burned the spirit of every Marin...

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Jacklyn H. Lucas, Iwo Jima Hero Who Smothered Two Grenades at 17

Jacklyn H. Lucas, Iwo Jima Hero Who Smothered Two Grenades at 17

Oct 09 , 2025

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Jacklyn H. Lucas was 17 years old when hell tore open before him on Iwo Jima. A kid barely old enough to drink, he dove headfirst into absolute chaos—grenades dropping like hail, death whispering i...

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Jacklyn H. Lucas — Iwo Jima's Sixteen-Year-Old Hero

Jacklyn H. Lucas — Iwo Jima's Sixteen-Year-Old Hero

Oct 08 , 2025

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Jacklyn H. Lucas was not even sixteen when the sands of Iwo Jima tore his childhood away. His body, barely formed, became a shield between death and his brothers in arms. Two grenades rolled by. Wi...

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Jacklyn H. Lucas, youngest Marine to earn Medal of Honor at Iwo Jima

Jacklyn H. Lucas, youngest Marine to earn Medal of Honor at Iwo Jima

Oct 08 , 2025

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Jacklyn H. Lucas was seventeen years old the day he did the unthinkable. Amid the chaos of Iwo Jima, grenades rained down like death itself, and he threw his body onto two of them—twice—shielding h...

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