African-American US Marines Staff Sergeant Timerlate Kirven and Corporal Samuel J. Love, Sr. having just been awarded Purple Heart medals, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944

Caption     African-American US Marines Staff Sergeant Timerlate Kirven and Corporal Samuel J. Love, Sr. having just been awarded Purple Heart medals, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944 ww2dbase
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Marine Corps Joseph H. Carpenter Collection
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Photos at Same Place Saipan, Mariana Islands
Added By C. Peter Chen
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1. Commenter identity confirmed C. Peter Chen says:
15 Sep 2014 06:36:31 PM

The two men were of US 2nd Marine Regiment. They were the first black Marines to receive the Purple Heart decoration, which was given for those wounded or killed in combat with the enemy.

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