This Week in Marine Corps History (09/15 - 09/21)

15 September 1950: The lst Marine Division, under the command of Major General Oliver P. Smith led the first major strike in North Korean territory, with an amphibious assault at Inchon that completely caught the enemy by surprise.

16 September 1946: Birth date of Sgt. Lawrence Peters who was awarded the Medal of Honor for “For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a Squad Leader with Company M, Third Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam on 4 September 1967.”

17 September 1782: Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Gale, fourth Commandant of the Marine Corps and the only one ever fired, was born in Dublin, Ireland.

18 September 1990: A new 40-acre training facility for Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) was dedicated at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, by General Alfred M. Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps.

19 September 1927: U.S. Marines participate in the Battle of Telpaneca, Nicaragua.

20 September 1814: With the U.S. Capitol destroyed by the British, Marines protected Congress in a hotel.

21 September 1950: General Almond, the X Corps commander, took personal command of the operations ashore and ordered the U.S. Army's 32d Infantry Regiment, followed by the 17th ROK Regiment, to cross the Han.