USS West Virginia Veteran

Richard Fagan

2nd.Lt
USMC
USS West Virginia
1925-1927

Richard Fagan served in combat in Nicaragua and China, and during WWII commanded the 1st Parachute Battalion on Bougainville.  On Iwo Jima, he earned a Navy Cross and retired as a Lt.Col in 1946. 

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