Description
More than 40 million Americans have served in the U.S. military during wartime. Only 3500 have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Of these, three have received the medal twice. One was recommended for it a third time. Marine Corps Sergeant Major Daniel J. Daly was an unlikely hero at five feet, six inches tall and 132 pounds. What he lacked in size he made up for in grit. He received his first Medal of Honor for single-handedly holding off enemy attacks during China's Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the second for his daring, one-man action during an ambush in Haiti in 1915. He was nominated for (but not awarded) an unprecedented third medal in World War I for his valor at Belleau Wood, where he led a charge against the German stronghold with the battle cry, "Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" This first full-length biography presents a detailed examination of a Marine Corps legend.
Author: Charley Roberts
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 10/21/2021
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.83w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781476686769
ISBN10: 1476686769
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War I
- Biography & Autobiography | General
Author: Charley Roberts
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 10/21/2021
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.83w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781476686769
ISBN10: 1476686769
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War I
- Biography & Autobiography | General
About the Author
Charley Roberts is a journalist and military historian. He has been an investigative reporter and state capital correspondent for the Orange County Register and Washington bureau chief and executive editor of the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He lives in Roseville, California.