Photo #: NH 106312
Private First Class John D. New, USMC
Halftone reproduction of a photograph, copied from the official
publication "Medal of Honor, 1861-1949, The Navy", page 230.
John D. New was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" while serving with the Second
Battalion, Seventh Marines, First Marine Division in action against Japanese
forces on Peleliu Island, Palau Group on 25 September 1944.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Online Image: 50KB; 580 x 765 pixels
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