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Chesty Puller - The Marine's Marine: Directed by Edward Feuerherd. With Joseph H. Alexander, R. Lawrence Coughlin, Virginia Puller Dabney, Raymond G. Davis. The life of decorated U.S. Marine Corps officer Chesty Puller.
12 Οκτ 1971 · General Puller was called as a defense witness in the 1956 trial of a Marine Corps drill sergeant, S/Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon in the drowning of six recruits in a training accident at Parris...
4 Απρ 1976 · Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend: Directed by John Ford. With John Ford, Lewis B. Puller, John Wayne. A tribute documentary on the most decorated U.S. Marine, General Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller.
Lewis Puller was a United States Marine Corps officer who saw action in World War II as well as the Korean War. He got his nickname "chesty" because he had a barrel chest which he would stick out when he walked.
Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps officer. Beginning his career fighting guerillas in Haiti and Nicaragua as part of the Banana Wars, he later served with distinction in World War II and the Korean War as a senior officer. By the time of his retirement in 1955, he had reached the rank of lieutenant general.
23 Μαΐ 1994 · Lewis B. (“Chesty”) Puller had won his general’s stars leading his regiment to safety in the harrowing American retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the first winter of the Korean War.
7 Οκτ 2024 · Chesty died in October 1971 following a series of strokes. The younger Puller would go on to write a Pulitzer Prize -winning autobiography, Fortunate Son (1991), as a tribute to his father, and die by his own hand in 1994.
