This Week in Marine Corps History (09/22 - 09/28)

22 September 1855: Marines and Seamen landed in Fiji Islands.

23 September 1776: Continental Marines were ordered to reinforce General George Washington in New York.

24 September 1873: Marines and seamen from the USS Pensacola and Benicia landed at the Bay of Panama, Columbia, to protect the railroad and American lives and property during the revolution.

25 September 1944: PFC John New was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry during actions against enemy Japanese forces on Peleliu Island. According to the citation, PFC New “unhesitatingly flung himself upon the grenade and absorbed the full impact of the explosion.”

26 September 2003: Ground was broken on the National Museum of the Marine Corps, the centerpiece of the Marine Corps Heritage Center.

27 September 1944: The American flag was raised over Peleliu, Palau Islands, at the 1st Marine Division Command Post.

28 September 1900: Marines withdrew from Peking after the Boxer Rebellion.