Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: Martin Kondreck (SP-2, US Army)
Taken: November 18, 1955
Caption: Belleau Wood Marine Memorial Dedication
Additional Description: General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., then Commandant of the Marine Corps, returned after 37 years to Belleau Wood, where he had fought as a Lieutenant during World War I, to deliver the major address dedicating the monument (covered by flag) to the 4th Brigade of U.S. Marines and their gallantry during the Belleau Wood encounter of 1918.
Official photograph from the archives of the Marine Corps History Division.
Submitted: August 5, 2015, by Kevin W. of Stafford, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p320055
File Size: 0.552 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.