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Jacklyn H. Lucas
1928–2008
Private First Class
Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, 5th Marine Division (Iwo Jima, 20 February 1945)
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
Named explicitly in Marine Corps University History Division Medal of Honor recipient biography: “In addition to the Medal of Honor, PFC Lucas was awarded the Purple Heart…”. Do not invent Bronze Star or Silver Star chips — those pages did not name them for this pack.
Public sources
Jacklyn H. Lucas’s Purple Heart is named in the Marine Corps History Division’s official Medal of Honor recipient biography. That same Marine Corps page lists the Purple Heart beside the Medal of Honor presented by President Truman on October 5, 1945. This decorations page records the Purple Heart from that account. It will not invent a Bronze Star Medal or Silver Star the Marine Corps list does not name, and it will not place a Medal of Honor chip on this awards row.
On Iwo Jima, February 20, 1945 — the day after his seventeenth birthday at sea — Lucas threw himself on grenades to shield fellow Marines in a ravine near an uncertain front line. That action is the public Medal of Honor record. The Purple Heart is the published wound decoration named by the History Division. They are not the same sentence.
He is not yet on a war-roll essay. Later Army parachute service and a Hattiesburg grave are public fact. They are not military decorations printed here as medals.
This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.
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