Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Medal of Honor Marine Who Dove on Grenades

Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Medal of Honor Marine Who Dove on Grenades

Nov 20 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was 14 when he lied about his age, hid the truth beneath a boyish grin, and joined the Marines. Barely a man, he charged into Hell before most boys knew the weight of a rif...

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Jacklyn Lucas, 15, Peleliu Teen Who Earned the Medal of Honor

Jacklyn Lucas, 15, Peleliu Teen Who Earned the Medal of Honor

Nov 14 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was fifteen years old when fire rained down on Peleliu’s red soil. Too young to enlist, he lied, eager—headstrong and stubborn as hell. The island’s fury hit him fast, and ...

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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, Youngest Marine in World War II to Earn Medal of Honor

Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Marine in World War II to Earn Medal of Honor

Nov 11 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was 17 when hell came for him. Two grenades landed at his feet on a brutal stretch of Iwo Jima’s rocky terrain — and without hesitation, he threw himself on them. He was th...

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Jacklyn Lucas, Medal of Honor recipient who saved Marines at Iwo Jima

Jacklyn Lucas, Medal of Honor recipient who saved Marines at Iwo Jima

Nov 10 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas Jr. was barely a man by any measure. Just 17 years old when the world convulsed under fire, yet he breathed the firestorm in Vietnam’s bloodier shadow—no, World War II’s Pacifi...

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Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Marine to Earn the Medal of Honor in WWII

Jacklyn Lucas, Youngest Marine to Earn the Medal of Honor in WWII

Nov 09 , 2025

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Jacklyn Harold Lucas was just seventeen when he tore through hell with a fury forged by youth and grit. The gunfire was relentless, grenades tossed like death itself incarnate—and there, in that cr...

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