This Week in Marine Corps History (10/6 - 10/12)

6 October 1916: Dog tags were first authorized by Marine Corps Order Number 32.

7 October 1950: With North Korean forces in full retreat, the Inchon-Seoul campaign of the Korean War was formally declared closed.

8 October 1899: A force of 376 Marines captured the insurgent town of Novaleta, Philippines.

9 October 1911: Joe Rosenthal, the photographer who snapped the iconic image of 5 Marines and a Corpsman raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, was born in Washington, D.C.

10 October 1942: Elements of the 2nd Bn 2nd Marine Regiment conducted a two-day raid on the villages of Koilotamaria and Garabaus, Guadalcanal.

11 October 1971: Marine legend Lt. General Chesty Puller, succumbed to pneumonia and kidney infection and died at age 73.

12 October 1979: Iwo Jima flag raiser Corporal Rene Gagnon died in Manchester, New Hampshire at the age of 54.