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Médaille militaire (France) Croix de Guerre (France) Daniel Joseph Daly (November 11, 1873 – April 27, 1937) [1] [2] was a United States Marine and one of nineteen U.S. servicemen to have been awarded the Medal of Honor twice. Daly and Major General Smedley Butler are the only Marines who earned two Medals of Honor for two separate acts of ...
Mar 5, 2022 · Dan Daly as a first sergeant, probably in France, in 1918 during the time he fought in World War I. Photo courtesy of the Marine Corps History Division Archive.
Mar 11, 2022 · Dan Daly’s upbringing. Born in 1873, Dan Daly had a hardscrabble, yet common upbringing. He was raised in a squalid tenement in New York City and cobbled together a living by selling newspapers. When he was slightly older, he began working in an overcrowded city factory. While only standing at five-foot six-inches, he was a fierce amateur boxer.
Mar 2, 2022 · Dan Daly as a first sergeant, probably in France, in 1918 during the time he fought in World War I. Photo courtesy of the Marine Corps History Division Archive. As I searched for the facts behind the legend, it became clear that the values personified by Daly are as relevant in today’s divisive times as they were a century ago.
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Dec 26, 2007 · Dan Daly died on April 27, 1937, at the age of 63. During World War II the U.S. Navy commissioned a destroyer honoring each of the Marine Corps’ two great heroes: USS Butler (DD-636) in 1942 and USS Daly (DD-519) the following year. Daly was also honored on a U.S. postage stamp issued in 2005.
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Oct 22, 2015 · Daniel Joseph “Dan” Daly was the first, despite his late arrival to the Corps. Born in 1873 in Glen Cove, New York, he enlisted in the Marine Corps at the end of 1899, hoping to get into the fighting in Cuba or the Philippines after training. But in early 1900, he was assigned as a U.S. Legation Guard in Peking, China, which is now called ...
