Historical Markers and War Memorials in Quantico, Virginia
Manassas is the county seat for Prince William County
Quantico is in Prince William County
Prince William County(660) ► ADJACENT TO PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY Fairfax County(710) ► Fauquier County(119) ► Loudoun County(345) ► Manassas(93) ► Manassas Park(7) ► Stafford County(213) ► Charles County, Maryland(150) ►
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This plaque is dedicated to Marines and Corpsmen who served with
3rd Battalion 27th Marines in the Republic of Vietnam
February 18, 1968 - September 10, 1968
3rd Battalion, 27th Marines (3/27) was the shortest serving Marine battalion to . . . — — Map (db m227009) HM WM
This marks the site
where in May 1917
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
and
Major General Commandant George Barnett
cut the first tree symbolizing official
acquisition of the Marine Reservation
Quantico, . . . — — Map (db m2638) HM
Colonel William E. Barber
United States Marine Corps
Commanding Officer, Company F, Second Battalion
Seventh Marines, First Marine Division
Awarded the Medal of Honor, Chosin Reservoir, Korea, from
28 November to 2 December, 1950 . . . — — Map (db m3114) WM
(north face)
1775 Semper Fidelis 1918
In memory of the Officers and Men of the
6th Machine Gun Battalion
United States Marines
who gave their lives for their Country
in the World War in 1918.
This tablet was erected by . . . — — Map (db m2636) HM
(marker on far left)
H-3-7 1950
Honoring
Marines, Navy Corpsmen, and
all others who served, were attached
or supported H-3-7, 1st Marine Division
FMF Korean War
Inchon/Seoul
Uijongbu
How Hill 891 . . . — — Map (db m3147) WM
Conducted on this Post July 23-26, 1953
Guest of Honor
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President of the United States
Attended by
Richard M. Nixon
Vice President of the United States
and
One hundred . . . — — Map (db m3120) HM
Company Corpsman, 1st Battallion, 6th Marines, 6th Marine Regiment, Quantico, Virginia
Petty Officer Balch was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the WWI battle near Vierzy, France on 19 July 1918.
"While under intense . . . — — Map (db m14831) HM
GySgt Phillip A. Jordan
United States Marine Corps
Awarded the Silver Star (posthumously) in action against the enemy while serving as Weapons Platoon Sergeant, Company C, 1st Battalion, 2d Marines on 23 March 2003 during the battle of An . . . — — Map (db m3011) WM
Private John Joseph Kelly
United States Marine Corps
Seventy-Eighth Company
Sixth Marine Regiment
Awarded two Medals of Honor for action
against the enemy, Blanc Ridge, France
3 October 1918
This gallant Marine fought bravely . . . — — Map (db m24798) WM
(Marker on front)
Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune
United States Marine Corps
Major General Commanding Second Division
American Expeditionary Force
France, World War I
1918-1919
Major General Commandant
United States . . . — — Map (db m3573) HM
William Leake Mann
Rear Admiral, Medical Corps
United States Navy
1884 - 1953
First Post Surgeon at Quantico
On the foundation he laid,
the structure of amphibious
medicine was built. — — Map (db m24797) HM
On November 10, 1943, the city of new Orleans dedicated the first United States monument of a woman in service uniform: “Molly Marine.” A local recruiter commissioned the statue to help recruit women during World War II. Renowned artist Enrique . . . — — Map (db m73948) HM
Prince William County. Prince William County, named for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and third son of King George II, was officially formed from Stafford and King George Counties in 1731. Manassas was designated the county seat in . . . — — Map (db m233899) HM
Named in honor of
Major General
Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller
Who commanded the Marine Battalion on Samar, Philippines in 1901. Originally, this was the site of one of the Evansport Batteries which successfully blockaded the Potomac . . . — — Map (db m5246) HM
Trees bordering this side of Lejeune field were planted in bicentennial commemoration of twenty-four historically significant battles, campaigns or wars in which United States Marines participated during the first 200 years of our nation's . . . — — Map (db m226976) HM WM
Dedicated as the
Bradley Clinic
on
22 September 1995
in honor of
Pharmacist's Mate Second Class
John H. Bradley
United States Navy
who served with honor and distinction in the Second Battalion, Twenty-Eighth Marines, Fifth Marine . . . — — Map (db m7693) HM
Third Force Reconnaissance Company
Third Reconnaissance Battalion
Third Marine Division
Awarded the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) for action against enemy forces in the Republic of South Vietnam on 16 February 1968
He gallantly gave his . . . — — Map (db m101724) HM
1st Lt Baldomero Lopez
United States Marine Corps
Platoon Commander
Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines
1st Marine Division, X Corps
Posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
for actions during the Battle of Inchon, Korea . . . — — Map (db m79044) WM
May we never forget to honor and pay tribute to our fellow classmates who paid the ultimate price and sacrificed their lives in Vietnam. Any one of us could have had our name listed, but it was only by God's Grace that we were spared. We hope and . . . — — Map (db m75753) WM
In command of a small mixed naval force, on 27 April 1805, he seized the harbor fortress of Derna, Tripoli, and raised the American Flag for the first time in the old world. — — Map (db m210948) HM
