This week in Marine Corps history

25 August 1940: Birth date of Captain James A. Graham who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Vietnam War.

26 August 1942: Ira Hayes enlisted in the Marine Corps. Corporal Hayes would go on to help raise the flag on Mount Suribachi during the battlefor Iwo Jima.

27 August 1790: Major Samuel Nicholas, the first officer commissioned in the Continental Marines died in Philadelphia, PA.

28 August 1893: Birth date of Lt. General Pedro Augusto del Valle who served in World War I, Haiti Nicaragua, the Banana Wars of the 1920s,and Guadalcanal.

29 August 1916: The Marine Corps Reserve was founded.

30 August 1945: 1st Battalion 4the Marines landed at Yososuka, Japan and occupied the airfield at the naval base there.

31 August 1934: Marines end 19 year occupation of Haiti