Visiting Guadalcanal on 30 September 1942, U.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, CinCPac, took time to decorate Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson, CO, 2d Raider Battalion; MajGen Vandegrift, in rear; and, from left, BGen William H. Rupertus, ADC; Col Merritt A. Edson, CO, 5th Marines; LtCol Edwin A. Pollock, CO 2d Battalion, 1st Marines; Maj John L. Smith, CO, VMF-223.
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